A Stitch in Photography
Carolle Bénitah
French/Moroccan photographer Carolle Bénitah worked for ten years as a fashion designer before turning to photography in 2001. In her work she combines old family snapshots and other found images with handmade elements such as embroidery, beading, ink drawings and collage. Through these photographic and multimedia processes Bénitah reinterprets her own history as a daughter a wife, and a mother.
More about Carolle Bénitah here.
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/carolle-benitah-photos-souvenirs
Left: ‘What Cannot Be Seen’ series
Above: ‘What Cannot Be Said’ series
Right: ‘Reunion’, from ‘Souvenirs’
Caroline McQuarrie:
Caroline McQuarrie is an interdisciplinary artist whose primary interest is the concept of home, whether it is located in a domestic space, a community or the land we identify with. She works with photography, video and craft practices to explore meaning carried in photographic and craft based objects and domestic, suburban or community sites.
More about Caroline McQuarrie here.
http://www.carolinemcquarrie.com/
Untitled# 4: Picnics
‘Back Stitch’ - time lapse/ stop motion animation of stitching on photographs...
Installation view - projected onto quilted fabric surface.
Anne de Gelas
– diary, text, books...
Tristram Mason - “What I absolutely love about his work, is that he experiments with so many techniques and materials – screenprint on paper, screenprint on canvas, a little embroidery here, a little embroidery there, and even ink on leather. “
Maurizio Anzeri – geometric embroidery, looser in fashion mag
I work with sewing, embroidery and drawing to explore the essence of signs in their physical manifestation. I take inspiration from my own personal experience and observation of how, in other cultures, bodies themselves are treated as living graphic symbols.'
Maurizio Anzeri
Maurizio Anzeri offers a wealth of inspiration for students who are looking for portrait photography ideas. The brightly embroidered patterns and delicately stitched veils cross the faces with sharp lines and dramatic glimmering forms.
Note: Although Anzeri sews directly into found vintage photographs (often from flea markets and car boot sales) it is usually recommended that most high school students use their own photographs for this purpose.
Sissi Farassat – beads and sequins
“Encountering Farassat’s works, one quickly sees that hundreds of hours have been spent changing by hand each photograph into a unique object. Farassat drastically alters the most inherent properties of the photographic medium: the instantaneousness of the camera and the possibility of creating multiple photographic prints. Instead, she takes needle and thread to each print, and hand-stitches thousands of crystals, beads, and sequins, transforming the photograph into a type of tapestry. “
Julie Cockburn – found photos, pushes limits of representation
"Julie Cockburn's embellishment of found paintings and photographs by embroidering, painting and reassembling, delivers the images out of redundancy into a meaningful present." - Jonathan P Watts, 2012
“Through the combination of second-hand objects and creative labour, Cockburn contradicts the generic and mass-produced with something crafted, imbuing her intellectually and physically worn objects with value. Techniques such as the childlike embroidered patterns that feature on found photographs and printed images, draw the viewer in to a sculpted journey of labour and creation. Cockburn's work challenges the means by which things are seen and visually digested, shown by the playful visual exploration of the materials she employs.”
https://www.flowersgallery.com/artists/view/julie-cockburn
Flore Gardner - anonymous identities, ambiguous stories…
Interview: https://www.textileartist.org/flore-gardner-looking-looking-looking/
Anna-Maria Bribiesca
Jose Romussi (1979) is a Chilean born mixed-media artist who uses hand embroidery to embellish photographs.
Jose Romussi
“Becoming an artist was a natural process for me, since I became an artist overnight, skipping most of the steps required. Finding my style came to me as naturally as becoming an artist.”
Jose Romussi
Victoria Villasana
(born in Guadalajara, Mexico)
Textile artist, interested in cultures & human spirit, looking at how cultures connect to each other in a fragmented, post-digital world.
When Victoria Villasana (previously) lays a long stitch on a vintage photograph, she’s connecting the pattern or geometric shape to a piece of history, culture, or philosophy. The Mexican artist transforms found black-and-white images of cultural icons and historical figures through vibrant embroideries. Turquoise fibers radiate from Nelson Mandela’s fist, a gold, chevron collar lines Chadwick Boseman’s shirt, and Yayoi Kusma sports a multicolor garment with varying dots and stripes. Emboldened by stitches that often breach the photographs’ edges, the multi-media artworks exude power, strength, and beauty
Victoria
Villasana
Victoria Villasana
Victoria Villasana
Lisa Kokin
takes found, unrelated photographs and stitches them together, fabricating a relationship between them; creating an imagined life from the nostalgic shots.
Lisa Kokin
Hinke Schreuders
Starting with vintage photography and illustrations of models sporting fashions from the 1950s, Amsterdam-based artist Hinke Schreuders applies a rich layer of hand-stitched embroidery, beading, lace, and flourishes of ink to entirely new images that can be both unsettling and exuberant. The pieces seen here are part of an ongoing series called Works on Paper, started in 2008. With her work Schreuders says she seeks to “subtly confuse notions of feminine vulnerability and reinforce the position of embroidery as an artistic medium,”
Hinke
Schreuders
Hinke
Schreuders
Mana Morimoto
Han Cao
This collection revives faded postcards collected from secondhand stores, antique shops and flea markets from the United States, Australia and abroad using needle and cotton thread. The countless stitches help make each place more familiar to us, even as far away as it may be.
Han Cao
Han Cao
Gregory T. Wilkins
“Born in Chicago, I moved to a small town in Florida called Eustis when
I was nine years old. Raised in a multi-ethnic, multinational family,
I was faced with adversity. This helped shape my development, social
activism, creativity and education.
The act of sewing is stitched throughout my work. Historically, sewing has
been labelled as ‘women’s work’ and, as a gay man I encourage the viewer
to question labels and privilege. What is ‘valued’ work and how does it fit
within a global context?
Through reconstruction and imagination, I build layers of paint,
embroidery thread, photographic collage and ink. These enhanced
elements transform into something new; a revelation of the original.
Just as ‘women’s work’ has lost cultural currency, I emphasize the power
and importance of history (and ‘herstory’) to understand our collective
truth and social constructs.
Flore gardner
Flore Gardner
Jessica Wohl
Pinky Bass
Pinky Bass