Honorable Mention / 2019 / Fine Art / Abstract

• Photographer
  Frank Lopez, United States
• Studio
  Frank Lopez Images
• Website
  http://franklopez.com
• Instagram
  @lopezimagery

I am deliberate in the process of degradation of materials and in how we can transform the process and syntax of photography. Polaroid film is exposed for color and quickly developed through the processing rollers. I begin to scratch and tear the back of the receiver sheet as the chemistry is spread onto the print. Once I have adequately made an impression, I discard the actual Polaroid and bleach the receiver sheet to create a color negative. I deduce the process of photography down to the essence of light gathering materials that allows interpretation through hand manipulation.

Frank Lopez is a photographer who specializes in blending 19th, 20th and 21st century technologies. His work, while lately experimental, typically delves into cultural landscape issues. He is a frequent guest lecturer and teaches wetplate and darkroom workshops in and around the Dallas/Denton area. He is the photographic instructor at Greenhill School and his students place in local, national and international competitions.

Awards 2011 Dallas Observer MasterMind Award for cultural and artistic contributions. 2011 Faculty Leader at Greenhill School. Frequent guest lecturer and is collected in numerous private collections. He has curated an exhibition featuring the Tintype/Ambrotype process and is curating a forthcoming exhibition at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas featuring handmade and manipulated imagery. Recently, Frank was published in The Hand Magazine as part of issue 23. He was interviewed for the artist series entitled Art&Seek on KERA 90.1 https://artandseek.org/profiles/frank-lopez/. Additionally, he was interviewed for the Dallas Observer for artists devoted to analog technologies: www.dallasobserver.com/video/analog-people-in-a-digital-world-YD4XCDo4. Frank has twice been the feature for Ted Forbes' Art of Photography Podcasts.