Lynne Breitfeller
Lynne Breitfeller is a photographer based in New Jersey. She explores both the mundane and unexpected details of everyday life. Human relationships, memory, loss, and humor are recurrent themes in her work. She received her B.A. in English from William Paterson University. She has studied photography at the International Center for Photography (New York), Los Angeles Center for Photography (California), and Maine Media College (Maine). After a two-decade career in text book publishing, she returned to the visual arts.
Her work has been exhibited at The Griffin Museum of Photography (Massachusetts), Center for Fine Art Photography and Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Colorado), Soho Photo Gallery (New York), Vermont Center for Photography (Vermont), Los Angeles Center for Photography and the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (California) and Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey) amongst others. She was recognized in Photolucida’s 2023 Critical Mass Top 50 and a merit winner in All About Photo Magazine’s Womens #29 Issue and the Rfotofolio Open Call 2022. Additionally, her work has been featured in Lenscratch, Fotofilmic, Silvergrain Classics, SHOTS, and Float magazines.
Artist Statement
After the Fire: Water Damaged, explores photographs as memory by examining the shape-shifting potential of altered images. As a result of a fire above my studio, water impacted my negatives destroying a third of my archive. Much was discarded, but I retained a collection of the work.
During the pandemic, I rediscovered the kept artifacts. Water on emulsion transformed their compositions and morphed the remains into new forms and meanings shaped by happenstance.
By working with the damaged pieces, I came to terms with the loss of my photographic legacy and saw the images anew. The memory of what was had shifted into something different. Our experience of remembering the past can change each time it is revisited, it is elastic.
This series made me consider ideas of transience and new incarnations, the impermanence of possessions, and memory.
Release Date: September 13, 2024
Julien,2022