All Photos © Bill Finger

Seattle-based photographer Bill Finger—who worked earlier in his career as an assistant cameraman—uses his knowledge of cinematography and set design to fuel his fine art project “Previously.” The macabre post-crime scenarios create narratives that straddle the line between fiction and reality, which at times surrender hints at the diorama’s construction. Finger showed his work as a participant at this year’s Photolucida in Portland, Oregon.

“The creation of each image begins with the construction of a miniature diorama. Each diorama is constructed specifically to be photographed. Like filmmaking, all staging and lighting is done looking through he lens. Once photographed, the diorama is destroyed. Through this process I create a temporary space, which like a film set, only lives on within the image.” —Bill Finger

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Life Saver © Caren Alpert

San Francisco based photographer Caren Alpert used her passion of food imagery and food issues to create her latest fine art project microscopically photographing food. Through her lens, common food items from blueberries to fortune cookies—are transformed into wondrous and often mysterious landscapes of texture and color. Alpert showed My Life With Science, Art and Food as a participant at this year’s Photolucida in Portland, Oregon.

“As a food lover and a photographer I answer these questions visually. Using scientific laboratory photo equipment, I journey over the surfaces of both organic and processed foods: my own favorites and America’s over-indulgences. The closer the lens got, the more I saw food and consumers of food (all of us!) as part of a larger eco-system than mere sustenance.” —Caren Alpert

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Gurewitz Couple, Uszhgorod, Ukraine, 2007

In There Was a Forest, Loli Kantor’s palladium prints document the parallel lives and rituals of the disappearing enclaves of Jews in rural Ukraine and the simultaneous, slow reemergence of Jewish culture and identity that is gradually transforming some of the larger communities there today.

Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Kantor showed There Was a Forest as a participant at this year’s Photolucida in Portland, and was also a recipient of the PhotoNOLA Reviewers Prize in December 2010.

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All Photos © Dina Litovsky

In her latest project, Untag This Photo, Dina Litovsky spent the last few years photographing the New York City nightlife—in clubs, lounges and bars, as well as parties—exploring how social behavior and self-representation of women have been influenced by new technologies, specifically digital cameras, iPhones and social networking sites. Litovsky showed her work as a participant at this year’s Photolucida in Portland, Oregon. This Summer Litovsky’s work will be included in PRC’s EXPOSURE 2011 exhibit at Boston University, juried by Whitney Johnson, picture editor of The New Yorker, the exhibit opens on July 21 and will be on view until August 21.

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