Barbara.L.Reimer
i do. i think. i listen. i watch. i read. i speak. i learn. i am.
FINDING A GREEN PHOTO
(the beginnings)
news & reviews
The A Word by Bart Gazzola - 9, 1, 2010
awards
Sask Arts Board - Independent Artist Grant (Spring 2010)
upcoming exhibitions
Finding Nicaragua
@Galeria del Sur, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.
(February 2011)
Earthship Pitaya Festival 2011
Feb 18-19, 2011
El Carizal, Nicaragua
OTHER PROJECTS
ongoing
LIVE: from the basement to the stage
365
SCANNED
in the past
how i learned to stop worrying and love the u of s. (SHIFTS 2010)
focus&device. (2009)
Natures Mortes: UofS Collection Acquisitions 2007 – 2008
i am student #564197.
(BFA 2008)
rocks, trees, leaves and things (or... everything my mother ever wanted me to print)
(Broadway Art Encounter, 2008)
WYATT: Sound Art (2007)
I Have Been Here
(1999)
commisioned
The Beer Show (Lydia's Pub, 2008)
CV
Barbara.L.Reimer
ABOUT FINDING A GREEN PHOTO
I am working with a non-toxic coffee process for developing film and paper while researching an ecologically responsible photograph, both in process and content.
I use homemade and refurbished old cameras and dated film discarded by other photographers. I have been experimenting with on-site developing, historical processes and, most recently, creating digital negatives designed to get the most out of the process for print.
So far, I have photographed for this project in:
La Chureca, Managua, Nicaragua
historical and tourist sites in Managua, Nicaragua
Casa Llanta, El Carizal, Nicaragua
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
Finca El Peten, near Jinotega, Nicaragua
The Ness Creek
Music Festival, 2009 & 2010
The Saskatoon City Dump Outskirts
Blackstrap Provincial Park (Skihill), Saskatchewan, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Photographing in garbage dumps as well as at tourist and known ecological sites and communities, in both first and third world conditions and developing on-site where possible, Finding a Green Photo begins a complex argument about sustainability, community, history and site through images of landscape.
ABOUT ME
Officially... “Barbara Reimer graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1996 with a Studio Arts major. Over the years that followed, she has worked and/or studied with several photographers across Saskatchewan and Toronto, as well as spending time at Ryerson’s Image Arts program before starting her own business, REIMERMEDIA, and heading back to school to obtain her BFA in 2008. Equally skilled and comfortable with both film and digital processes, the camera and computer are often just stepping stones to her final image, usually a hybrid of the 'old' and the 'new'. As an artist, Barbara explores the nature of photography and the photograph to find meaning in even the simplest of images. She craves design with substance and has an interest in the meditative, the politics and the structure of the process of the life she sees.”
Unofficially, I am just a girl with a camera who wants to take photos.
Photography is the loudest, and softest, voice I have.
Barbara L. Reimer, BFA
www.reimereason.ca
CONTACT: muse [at] reimereason [dot] ca