Traditional Bromoil print hand pencil colored
NIKON D3400,46 mm, f5.3, 1/60
PJ Sturdevant is a native Cincinnatian with degrees in Mechanical Engineering Technology and Applied Science from The University Of Cincinnati and Miami University. PJ studied photography in the early nineteen seventies with Walt Burton at Camera Works. Following a 45-year career in industry he has returned to his love of photography specializing in the Bromoil process.
Awards FotoFocus 2016 Cincinnati Ohio. Oct 2016. 36 Bromoil Prints.
48th Hamilton Current and Miami University Regionals Art Competition. Honorable Mention.
Silver prints confirmed for the competition 5th Anual Zebra Awards" final judging.FotoFocus 2018 A. B. Cohen Gallery Xavier University, 30 Bromoil prints.
Photographer’s Forum Finalist, Best Photography of 2018.
Hamilton Current 2019,
The Fitton Center For Creative Arts.
The View 2019, The Rosewood Gallery Kettering Ohio. Honors Award. One Bromoil Print.
Cincinnati Nature Center’s Second Annual Photography Show, 2019,
Nature in Focus.
FotoFocus regional juried exhibition “AutoUpdate”. Presented at The Carnegie Art Gallery September 14 – November 16, 2019.
PJ STURDEVANT: A RECORD OF DISUSE
Xavier University Art Gallery in The Gallagher Student Center
October 1, 2022–December 10, 2022
A Record Of Disuse is a collection of photographic prints featuring objects that were once functional. Now worn, discarded, and even unrecognizable, the viewer may imagine what the original function could have been. The monochromatic bromoil process has been used to record, intensify and add interest to what remains. For example, Stasis depicts an outdated wall mounted thermostat, cover removed, with internal mechanisms frozen in layers of white paint.
The bromoil process is a printing method that combines the arts of photography, printmaking, and painting. The process begins with a black and white silver gelatin print, with the silver chemically removed and replaced with lithographic ink.
