Tiffany Teske

Tiffany Teske, award-winning photographer, is my featured Etsy shop today. She has been fascinated by photography since she got her first camera at age seven, and it became merely a hobby until she was enrolled at the University of Maine and, ultimately, made the decision to make photography her career. She continued with these studies until she had received a Bachelor of Arts Joint BA in Art and Photography (Magna cum Laude) in May of 2002. She has been making a living with her photography since the time of her decision in 1998.

The photograph at left was processed using something called emulsion lift. I will let Tiffany describe this in her own words. "To begin this unique photographic art I capture an image on slide film or digital file. The slide or a 4x6 print are then projected onto Polaroid pack film. The emulsion layer of the print is boiled off its substrate, leaving a jelly fish like layer that I hand manipulate onto either a porous surface, as in the beige, fiberous, handmade paper here, or a non-porous surface like metal, wood, or stone. The result is a one-of-a-kind emulsion lift of the original slide or digital image. The original image can be exposed and lifted an unlimited number of times but the resulting left will always be very different from the last. Each emulsion lift is approximately 4x6” in size and is hand signed (both on the image and the mat). This emulsion lift comes with a hand cut, acid free, museum quality archival mat, which has a 5x7” window and outer dimensions of 8x10.”

With Red Dahlias at left, the Polaroid Transfer process was used. Says Tiffany, "This unique photographic art begins with this I captured this image on slide film. The slide is then projected onto Polaroid pack film which is peeled prematurely. The “waste” side of the film pack, which contains processing chemicals, is then placed face down onto wet watercolour paper and brayed (rolled over with a print making brayer). The result is a one-of-a-kind hand-pulled photographic transfer of the original slide image. The original image can be transferred an unlimited number of times but the resulting transfer will always vary from the last. Each transfer is approximately 3 ½” by 4” in size and is hand signed (both on the image and the mat). This transfer comes with a hand cut, acid free, museum quality archival mat, which has outer dimensions of 8x10."

Tiffany also has a selection of bamboo pendants with one of her photographs which are lacquered to a shiny finish and come with a silver bail chain.

Ten percent of the total proceeds of her Etsy shop go to local Victory Thrift Shop's Operation Jacket Frost, a snowsuit and winter clothing fund for needy children in Banff, Canada, where Tiffany now lives with her husband and daughter.

To view more of Tiffany Teske's work go to:

http://TiffanyTeske.etsy.com
http://www.oldesage.com/