Wednesday, October 3

Artist Feature - TIFFANY TESKE





Tiffany Teske has loved photography since she was 7 years old, though it would be many years before the shutter bug’s bite would truly take hold.

Tiffany studied ballet, creative writing, and art in high school but did not take photography classes. Instead, she was in the “after school photography club" and was taught by a science teacher how to use the darkroom. Some the chemicals got into her blood and after roaming the US for 5 years (Arizona, Florida, Connecticut, & New York) she settled in the small town of Carrabassett Valley, Maine. While there, Tiffany decided to go to the University for.... nursing? Well, she did start the pre-requisite courses, but luckily fate stepped in! After one summer color printing course and some credit mishaps on the University’s part, she switched her major to photography. Tiffany graduated from the University of Maine at Augusta with both an Associate of Arts in Photography (Magna cum Laude) in 2000 and a Bachelor of Arts Joint BA in Art and Photography (Magna cum Laude) in 2002.

During this time she met her future husband, who was from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Tiffany now resides in Banff, Alberta, Canada, with their toddler, Quinlyn.

The photo above is entitled "NYC Tulips" and can be purchased for $30 USD on Tiffany's Etsy shop (http://tiffanyteske.etsy.com/).

She explains the process used to create this amazing photograph here: "To begin this unique photographic art I capture an image on slide film. The slide is then projected onto Polaroid pack film which is peeled prematurely. The “waste” side of the film pack, which contains processing chemicals, is then placed face down onto wet watercolour paper and brayed (rolled over with a print making brayer). The result is a one-of-a-kind hand-pulled photographic transfer of the original slide image. The original image can be transferred an unlimited number of times but the resulting transfer will always vary from the last. Each transfer is approximately 3 ½” by 4” in size and is hand signed (both on the image and the mat). This transfer comes with a hand cut, acid free, museum quality archival mat, which has outer dimensions of 8x10."

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