Heidi Kirkpatrick

Born: 1959 in Springfield, Ohio.
She currently lives in the Portland, Oregon area and joined the Northwest Academy in 2004 to teach high school students photography.
Famous for depicting the world as a woman would see it.  She is also know to develop her own images, with silver gelatin printing, alternative processes, and creates transparent images on film with 3D mixed media objects.  She uses a toy Holga camera to take her shots, even though this is a cheaper type of camera she is able to create very artistic shots and show what she wants to show to the viewer of the image.

Some of my favorite photos of hers are:


Tattoo




Svartsengi Geothermal Station 2001

 

CVG to PDX 4/99

In the photo CVG to PDX 4/99 the way the mountain is framed in the middle of the photo toward the back, helps to emphasis how high Ms. Kirkpatrick was from the ground when the image was shot.  The plane wing being in focus to the right of the shot also allows the viewer to have context of the image. There is a great amount of value in this shot with the burned edges of the photo and the white of the ice and snow that is in Iceland.  While right away the viewer is not sure if the snow is really snow, they soon realize it when they see the mountain in the background.