Elizabeth Heyert

I thought you guys would enjoy this photographer, Elizabeth Heyert.  Her series The Sleepers was shot on an 8X10 camera, twice as big as the 4X5's you guys have been using and printed them in the darkroom even larger than the 30X40 prints you had an option to make.  She examines the moments when we have no conscious control but we subconsciously move ourselves with the space or the person we sleep with.  The figures dance like weightless statues, they're quite beautiful.

Her process is long and complicated, though in idea is pretty simple:  she angled her camera down from a balcony over her studio and photographed these people sleeping, then went to Tuscany, projected the images onto old stone walls, and re-photographed them.  Okay, maybe that doesn't sound that simple...but it was infinitely complicated by conditions, emotion and circumstance.  Read her interview to find out more about it, it's a good read.

 Sleepers 07 © Elizabeth Heyert

60"X47"

This installation photo shows the scale they were printed at.  Huge!
Also consider her use of the figure for when you start your portrait assignment.

Rose