Anna Ostanina is a Fine Art Photographer. She is a member of the Union of Photographers of Russia, and is a participant in numerous international and Russian exhibitions and competitions. She learns and perfects the unique methods of manual handmade photographic printing. Her works are in galleries, museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.
The work featured here is from two extensive bodies of work by Anna, titled, Trees Grow For All, and Still Music.
Michelle Rogers Pritzl was born and raised in Washington DC, where she began studying photography in high school. Pritzl received a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in 2001, a MA from California State University in 2010, and a MFA in Photography from Lesley University College of Art, where she studied with Christopher James, in 2014. Her work explores the tension between past and present in our psychological lives as well as the photographic medium itself, often working in a digital/analogue hybrid.
Pritzl works in alternative and historic photographic processes, and has been widely exhibited in New York, New Orleans, Fort Collins, Boston and Washington DC, amongst others. Pritzl was a Critical Mass Top 250 finalist in 2013; she has been featured in Lenscratch, Noovo Editions, Diffusion Magazine, Lumen Magazine and her work as been recognized by the International Photography Awards, LensCulture and the Prix de la Photographie Paris.
Pritzl has taught photography and drawing in both high school and college for the last 10 years, most recently serving as an adjunct instructor at Lesley University College of Art, as well as leading workshops for the Griffin Museum of Photography and The Vermont Center of Photography.
In 2017, Michelle was selected as a finalist in Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 200 photographers for her project titled Not Waving But Drowning, for which she has utilized the wet plate collodion process. This body of work has also been featured in numerous publications, both in print and online.
Her work in gumoil featured on this site is from her series titled, The Path To Avalon.
http://www.michellerogerspritzl.com
Andrey Belle is a fine art painter and sculptor who also works in photography using the gumoil process. He lives in Saint Petersburg, Russia
