- Catherine Ames -


The background of my work is large format black and white landscape photography. After using the medium for over 20 years, and the loss of my darkroom, I decided to give digital photography a try and my style has changed dramatically to colour, movement, and breaking all the rules of traditional landscape photography.

There are places that have their own distinctive atmosphere, their own mystery and history, their own story to tell. These are the energies I attempt to bring out through my own vision.

The response to my new work has been very positive, as no one else, as far as I know, is using digital image making this way.

All of my black and white images are made with a Crown Graphic 4 x 5² field camera. The 16 x 20² photographs are at a limited edition of 40.

All of my color works are composites of 8 to 30 images, all taken in the same place, at slightly different angles.