DIYthing

Tiffany Teske travels to the chosen environments of her portrait clients, whether they live down the street or halfway around the globe. In her travels she has captured people’s lives and put them together in several documentaries.

Tiffany visited Haiti in June 2003. She went with friends who have established a child sponsorship program and served as the Official Project Photographer.

Tiffany’s love is in fine art photography, specifically in Polaroid transfer. Tiffany teaches these techniques in workshops. She is drawn to any photography technique or process that is hands on and that allows her to take a photograph and make it a true original. Tiffany is grateful for digital photography, but enjoys the process of hands on techniques that allows her to be more creative.

My favorites are Tiffany’s Polaroid Transfers - the process is quite interesting and the look is mysterious. She first captures the image on slide film, and then it is projected onto Polaroid pack film, but the trick is to peel it prematurely.

I hope you enjoy browsing her site as much as we did…enjoy!

Vist Tiffany’s Flickr site or Etsy shop also.

We asked Tiffany what inspires her: “I would say I find inspiration everywhere! Sometimes, I wish I wasn’t so inspired, because I feel I will never have enough time to create all the ideas that I have. To name a few I am inspired by nature, by civilization and how it invades nature, in patterns and textures both organic and inorganic, by all things vintage and historic, by my child and my relationships with others, by animals in the wild… I see beauty not just in “beautiful” things but find immense beauty in entropy, in the process of things breaking down and decaying.”

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