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I began photographing when
I was eight years old with a Kodak Instamatic given to me by my paternal
grandmother. My father soon taught me how to process and
print black & white film. By ten, I had set up a temporary darkroom
in the family bathroom and was photographing all around my home town of
Burlington, Vermont. Some years later, I went on to study photography
formally and received a bachelor's degree from Bard College in Annandale, New York where I studied under
Ben Lifson and Stephen Shore. From 1986 - 1988, I was a black and white exhibition printer
for Stephen
Shore (portraits from Andy Warhol's Factory), Wendy Ewald (various work) and
other N.Y.C. based photographers.
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In 1989, I received an
artist-in-residence grant from the
Irish Arts Council (Dublin, Ireland). With this grant, I taught
photography to children in Connemara, Ireland and photographed the Irish
"travelling people". The resulting photographs
(mine and the children's) formed an exhibition titled "Griangraf Na Paisti"
which toured Ireland, the United Kingdom and Europe in 1989. That same
year, I also lectured in photography at Dun Laoghaire College of Art, just
outside Dublin.
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Although my past work has until
1999
involved large, medium and small format film cameras, my current photography is done
primarily with a small format digital camera. At present, I am also using Photoshop
and a negative scanner to edit and rework a large set of small format
portraits made in New York City and Budapest, Hungary between 1991 and 1994
(when I studied informally with Helen Levitt*).
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Simultaneously, I am constantly in the process of redesigning and upgrading the
pictures at
motorcycletours.com,
the web site for Northeastern Motorcycle Tours, an adventure touring
company I began in 1996. I'm very excited by the possibilities of
digital imaging and have abandoned the traditional darkroom in favor of the
"digital darkroom" which allows me to work in natural light and
gaze out the windows from time to time at the landscape of rural Vermont.
- Sean Reid
For the
curious:
Links to books by Ben Lifson, Stephen Shore, Wendy Ewald and Helen Levitt can
all be found by entering the photographer's names (one at a time) into the
search engine at Amazon.com
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2003. Any reproduction or use of material which appears on
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