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    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit | DER GREIF
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit | DER GREIF
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit | DER GREIF
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit | DER GREIF
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit | DER GREIF
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit | DER GREIF
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit | DER GREIF
    Courtesy of Rory Hamovit
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    Rory Hamovit

    Artist Blog by Paloma Dooley

    I’ve been enjoying the work of photographers and friends who embrace color darkroom printing as part of their art practice, including Rory Hamovit is a Los Angeles-based photographer who shoots large format color film in his studio in east LA. We first met while attending Bard College together – I still remember how much I loved his thesis show in 2013.

    I have been lucky to get to visit Rory’s studio a few times in the past year and see his process of sketching out ideas for potential photographs, his works in progress, and his beautiful c-prints from the color darkroom. I am always impressed at how prolific he is in his studio experiments: recently he has been creating cut-paper dioramas of imagined night life scenes and lighting them with colorful gels for his photos. I love the way he invents the world of his pictures. Humor, queerness, and playfulness are all major players in Rory’s work. I’m smiling when I look at his new work, but I’m also thinking about tensions between connection and alienation. I’m thinking about an economy of attention that spills over into real life from social media.

    Rory’s contact prints – sharp, vivid, magical – are part of what pushed me back into the color darkroom recently. Looking at his c-prints was a reminder that the color paper we use in the darkroom is literally made for the large-format film that we shoot. The materials want to work together! It felt good to rediscover my love of these materials after getting to spend time with Rory and his work.

    Paloma Dooley is part of Issue 17 by Guest Editor Torbjørn Rødland

    Check out her Artist Feature Borrowed Landscape.

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    Paloma Dooley

    Paloma Dooley grew up in New York and earned a BA in photography from Bard College. In 2016, she completed a monthlong residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She shoots exhibition photography for museums, galleries, and artists, and shoots editorial assignments for Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Yorker, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and the New York Times Magazine, among others. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where she recently completed a four-month residency at Quinn Emanuel Artists in Residence. She is a recipient of a 2024 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant. She uses a large format view camera to photograph predominantly in the landscape at home and on the road.