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Lindsey Palmer is a recent graduate of RIT’s MFA in Photography and Related Media program. She lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a gallery worker, art installer, and an adjunct photography instructor. She received her BFA from Point Park University, in 2015 and has been attending SPE conferences since 2012. Palmer specializes in alternative process and experimental image-making. Recently she has been awarded the ImageOut Prize in the Rochester NY Emerging 19 juried show and is part of the RIT Library’s Cary Collection.
Published on March 18th, 2020. Artist responses collected in months previous.
What projects are you working on right now?
Right now I am in the planning stages for two projects. One that mixes two historical processes--the cyanotype and the ambrotype, and one that centers around large format photography, the human body and our uncomfortable relationship to our landscapes.
How do you keep yourself accountable in your practice?
To keep myself accountable I keep a journal with ideas at all times. My first college art professor made us right down everything, since then I keep a notebook (or three) on me at all times. Carrying one isn't always the easiest, but forcing myself to have it lets me keep track of ideas, and serves as a reminder to be creative.
How do you stay motivated to pursue your creative work?
Seeing other artists definitely motivates me, I work several art related jobs and get to see the inner workings of many kinds of practices, from writing, to illustration, to music, photography, painting and dance. I'm also looking forward to teaching, helping others learn is a huge motivation for me.
Where do you hope to be 10 years from now and what would you like to say to yourself?
Ten years from now I hope to be more comfortable in my own practice, but to still be challenging my own routine. I am a creature of habit, and definitely need some stability--but I hope that I'll take as many risks as I do now, and that they'll pay off. I's like to start by saying "see, that wasn't so bad!" I start my first day as an adjunct professor in three days, and I'm very nervous! I also just want to remind myself to read the above hopes for the future, and know that no mater what I've done, as long as I'm true to myself it'll all be ok.
What projects are you working on right now?
Right now I am in the planning stages for two projects. One that mixes two historical processes--the cyanotype and the ambrotype, and one that centers around large format photography, the human body and our uncomfortable relationship to our landscapes.
How do you keep yourself accountable in your practice?
To keep myself accountable I keep a journal with ideas at all times. My first college art professor made us right down everything, since then I keep a notebook (or three) on me at all times. Carrying one isn't always the easiest, but forcing myself to have it lets me keep track of ideas, and serves as a reminder to be creative.
How do you stay motivated to pursue your creative work?
Seeing other artists definitely motivates me, I work several art related jobs and get to see the inner workings of many kinds of practices, from writing, to illustration, to music, photography, painting and dance. I'm also looking forward to teaching, helping others learn is a huge motivation for me.
Where do you hope to be 10 years from now and what would you like to say to yourself?
Ten years from now I hope to be more comfortable in my own practice, but to still be challenging my own routine. I am a creature of habit, and definitely need some stability--but I hope that I'll take as many risks as I do now, and that they'll pay off. I's like to start by saying "see, that wasn't so bad!" I start my first day as an adjunct professor in three days, and I'm very nervous! I also just want to remind myself to read the above hopes for the future, and know that no mater what I've done, as long as I'm true to myself it'll all be ok.
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