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Jari Poulin united states
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This project idea came about when I was using in-camera multiple exposure for another project and was struck by the beautiful and poignant variances in emotional reactions of the subjects I was working with in frames that were shot just seconds apart. In that project, I was working with imagined stimuli, but I was curious how real stimuli could illicit a chain reaction of responses through touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight to be caught in multiple exposure in a single image over the course of seconds.
The result of this project contained many surprises that enhanced the pleasure of making the work as well as viewing it in all its complexity. Many of the images are cubist in nature and speak to the near simultaneous sensations we are capable of feeling, while abstracting the portrait image to a point where the viewer must decide how to enter to the image and find their way around the various layers and depths. The mental challenge to these images is the aspect that invites
Jari Poulin, Photographer
Jari Poulin is a full-time working artist and photographer who holds her MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design.
Some recent exhibitions include The Photography Show at the State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, NY in which she was awarded First Prize by the Jurors in March 2019, The Ink Shop Members Show in September of 2018, The Ink Shop International Mini Print Show in which she was awarded an Honorable Mention in November 2018, along with other awards from ND Magazine Annual Photography Awards, Worldwide Photography Awards 7th Pollux Award, A Bronze Award in the Moscow International Foto Awards, the Color Magazine Portfolio Prize, as well as winning the Black & White Magazine Portfolio Award.
Jari’s work reflects her interest in memory and identity, and the interiority of being. Her work often involves dance, motion, and intentional forms of obfuscation, blocking or blurring that bring focus to or away from something of interest while also evoking context and meaning. Her work as an artist embraces digital photography, printmaking and alternative processes.
At a young age, she was fortunate enough to study with a passionate photography teacher and learn darkroom before analog processes gave way to the digital world. That physical sense of working in the darkroom and the magical alchemy of processing negatives and developing prints fed her interest in alternative processes as well as the vast possibilities of manipulation in the digital darkroom as well as the integration of digital and analog processes.
Growing up in an environment of art, dance, music and poetry, Jari grew up communicating through the arts. Her background is rich in the language of visual culture and storytelling.
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This portrait series is an exploration and celebration of people engaged in the process of activating one or more of their five senses including hearing, touch, sight, smell, taste. As someone who has acute senses that at times overwhelm me with intensity, and even a sixth sense that is quite significant, I was interested in pursuing a project that would allow me make portraits of subjects with overlapping reactions to things that excited their senses. But what was most exciting to me in this project are the seconds in between frames when I was able to capture some very beautiful stillness in each individual, while they were unaware of the camera, during these multiple exposure takes. This is something I call the “stillness” of the “interiority of being.”This project idea came about when I was using in-camera multiple exposure for another project and was struck by the beautiful and poignant variances in emotional reactions of the subjects I was working with in frames that were shot just seconds apart. In that project, I was working with imagined stimuli, but I was curious how real stimuli could illicit a chain reaction of responses through touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight to be caught in multiple exposure in a single image over the course of seconds.
The result of this project contained many surprises that enhanced the pleasure of making the work as well as viewing it in all its complexity. Many of the images are cubist in nature and speak to the near simultaneous sensations we are capable of feeling, while abstracting the portrait image to a point where the viewer must decide how to enter to the image and find their way around the various layers and depths. The mental challenge to these images is the aspect that invites
about the photographer
Biography/Exhibits/AwardsJari Poulin, Photographer
Jari Poulin is a full-time working artist and photographer who holds her MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design.
Some recent exhibitions include The Photography Show at the State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, NY in which she was awarded First Prize by the Jurors in March 2019, The Ink Shop Members Show in September of 2018, The Ink Shop International Mini Print Show in which she was awarded an Honorable Mention in November 2018, along with other awards from ND Magazine Annual Photography Awards, Worldwide Photography Awards 7th Pollux Award, A Bronze Award in the Moscow International Foto Awards, the Color Magazine Portfolio Prize, as well as winning the Black & White Magazine Portfolio Award.
Jari’s work reflects her interest in memory and identity, and the interiority of being. Her work often involves dance, motion, and intentional forms of obfuscation, blocking or blurring that bring focus to or away from something of interest while also evoking context and meaning. Her work as an artist embraces digital photography, printmaking and alternative processes.
At a young age, she was fortunate enough to study with a passionate photography teacher and learn darkroom before analog processes gave way to the digital world. That physical sense of working in the darkroom and the magical alchemy of processing negatives and developing prints fed her interest in alternative processes as well as the vast possibilities of manipulation in the digital darkroom as well as the integration of digital and analog processes.
Growing up in an environment of art, dance, music and poetry, Jari grew up communicating through the arts. Her background is rich in the language of visual culture and storytelling.
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