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FEATURED
WORK
"I have an eye for capturing a "sense of place," and whom or what inhabits that particular place in such a way that they become a part of that place. I am especially attracted to visual ironies. Either unrelated things that have become similar; contrasting colors and textures; human-made objects created to impose upon nature but are overcome by nature; or a moment captured when what seems improbable might just be about to happen. Very few of my images include people. From the background of a scenic designer and scenic artist, I try to convey the emotion or feeling of the location, allowing the "audience" to imagine for themselves the slice of life of the people or animals that have been there.
I shoot with a Minolta 7000i 35mm camera and film. I then scan enlargements into my computer, and illustrate them with Photoshop. As fine art prints, the images are printed as Giclče watercolor prints on Arches paper. I think of myself as a painter, not a photographer, and have chosen the term "illustrated photographs" to describe my work. I change little or nothing of the content of my photographs. I paint over them with color and texture, giving the images more of what I see in my mind's eye."
- Lisa Shaftel
The "Windsock" image is Building 27, a World War II Naval hangar on the Sand Point Naval Base, Magnusson Park, in Seattle, Washington. Building 27, along with two other buildings on the Base, had been leased by Victor Television Productions to be used as film studios for the production of Steven King's "Rose Red" during the fall of 2000. I had been working in Building 27 for a couple of months, painting the enormous set for the film. Every day during lunch break, I'd sit outside and gaze at the sad, tattered windsock on top of the hangar, wondering about what sort of activity went on inside that hangar during WWII when that windsock was new. Little did those sailors know that decades later there would be over 100 IATSE artisans building the largest film set ever in Seattle inside. I took this photograph in December, 2000. The seagull was an "extra"!
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