Anne Mcdonald

Anne McDonald is an American photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. McDonald started her artistry at the age of 15 by making portraits of herself up until she was 30. With her self-portraits she would build up installations and perform privately in front of a camera. Many of her installations were made in abandoned places and personally I think this speaks to her creativity. Art can be placed anywhere and being that these places were abandoned, I believe it adds to the meaning of the works she's produced over time and shows that although these places don't fit the aesthetic of what we think art is, it adds to the meaning of what her self-portraits stand for. With images she produced over time, McDonald was able to publish a book of it in 2004.

Many of her images were produced using a Diana camera. Staying within analog photography, she expanded her horizon and started experimenting with chemicals and photo paper. With the work she's made over the years, she's been a part of 44 solo exhibits in 10 countries and has made her name prevalent in even more places. With her experimentations, McDonald was able to produce works that sized from 20x16in to 40x30in. She even created prints that are scrolls and can be over 6ft long. With her experiments, McDonald wanted to explore ways to create images without the use of lens, film, or sensors. She wanted to revisit history and the process of photograms, chemigrams, and lumen printing. A lot of what she created used materials such as eggshells, bleach, glass, flashlights, growing mold, spices, medicine and more on photo paper. The techniques used to produce the art made are unorthodox. It's not the conventional way of making it and that's what make McDonalds pieces amazing. Her scrolls are 50x111in and the images made her spheres and circles to represent life. The title of her piece is "Atom, Planet: Cameraless Photography".

Installed at Skink Ink in Brooklyn, NY

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