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Shadow & Light Magazine The Art of Photography Color It Red 2020 Special Issue! Image: Fran Forman (detail) www.shadowandlightmagazine.com Volume 6/Issue 03 March/April 2020 ISSN: 2471-7881

Shadow & Light Magazine The Art of Photography Notes... I hope you all are doing well in these challenging these pages, with her times. What better way to alleviate some of the compelling concepts stressful than to spend some time perusing the pages representing a range of this Shadow & Light Magazine, Color It Red of portfolios that are Special 2020 Issue. We had six full (10-images) compelling, insightful, Color It Red Showcase Portfolio contest winners, a and have a unique beauty couple of mini-portfolios and a several Single Image all their own. Showcase winners spread throughout the magazine. In this issue she shares I commend each and every entrant for taking that part of her work in the ever-important step of getting your work out there. award-winning series, It’s the best thing you can do. We need your work. We “Chromatics.” Taking a need your commitment. Your artistic vision. We need cue from the history of you! art, another Color It Red Showcase Portfolio 2020 winner, Lori Pond offers us Fran Forman is well-known to these pages, as she a somewhat humorous look at her interpretation of that has been featured previously. In this issue, however, irreverent artist Hieronymus Bosch. she is the Grand Prize Winner of the Color It Red 2020 competition. As you know by now, one of The remaining pages of this issue are filled out with her images, Briana, graces the cover. Her portfolio Showcase Mini Portfolios (five images) presented was consistent, full of red and the images very well by Barry Brukoff and Barbara Leven. Six other representative of the “Color It Red” theme. When you photographers entered images that ranked high view her portfolio, I am sure you will agree. singularly and are represented in the Color It Red 2020 Single Image Showcase: Vared Galor, Another photographer who did very well in the voting Diane Wiseman Linscott, Rhonda Spidell, Dale is Color It Red 2020 Showcase Portfolio Winner Niles, Dennis Jones, and Mark Indig David Duplessie, whose series “Abstract Realities” made the judges open their eyes to what is possible As you will see, the images presented herein are unique, when you get a bit closer and see something few other poetic, compelling, and most assuredly, very colorful. photographers recognize. His images are the result of Please join me in congratulating all the Shadow & Light seeing things a bit differently than most. Magazine Color It Red 2020 winners! Other Color It Red 2020 Showcase Portfolio Winners When you photograph people offered work that is personal, enlightening, colorful, in color, you photograph their and thought-provoking. clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you Patti Christakos offered us a personal view into what drives her visually to continue working on two photograph their souls! series at the same time, while C.E. Morse takes us into junk car lots and abandoned vehicles to get a take on what drives him photographically. Ted Grant Like Fran Forman, Barbara Cole is no stranger to [email protected] www.shadowandlightmagazine.com

Shadow & Light Magazine • Table of Contents Chromatics Slot Canyons Barbara Cole (below) Page 55 Karen Tillison (below) Page 83 Bosch Redux Lori Pond (below) Page 71 Mini Portfolio Winners Barry Brukoff Barbara Leven Color It Red 2020 Single Image Showcase Winners Allison Earnest, Dennis Jones, Diane Wiseman Linscott, Mark Indig, Vared Galor, Rhonda Spidell Shadow & Light Magazine Staff Please note that all content and photographs and other materials in this publication are the Tim Anderson, managing editor Pat Berrett, assistant editor sole property of their respective owners and are fully copyrighted. Ann Hart Marquis, art director Helen K. Garber, editor-at-large ISSN 2471-7681 March/April 2020 E.E. McCollum, editor-at-large 2 www.shadowandlightmagazine.com

Color It Red Showcase Portfolio Barbara Cole: Chromatics Figure transformation has been a predominant theme in my work over the past twenty-five years. I have been operating as a painter but employing traditional photographic tools. Over the past decade, my practice has explored the medium of water and in this new project, “Chromatics,” I find myself moving in a very different and exciting new direction. Still working with water, I am connecting back in history, reinterpreting the meaning of the Colour Field work and such great painters as Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Lewis and Barnett Newman among so many others. I photograph from above in order to flatten the perspective. I rework this canvas with a toolkit that includes clouds, reflections, plastic sheeting, cloth-encased figures as well as aperture, shutter speed and artificial lighting. It is important that I can capture these photographic constructions in-camera, creating on site, rather than relying on photographic artifice. Barbara Cole ©Barbara Cole • www.barbaracole.com • [email protected] Shadow & Light Magazine • March/April 2020 55

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