The Photographer
Jeffrey D. Mathias

I consider myself a hunter/gatherer when creating photographs.  I create images from my personal learning and keep true to the discovery.  I have worked many years studying the interrelationships of environing space and culture, placing discoveries into photographic images.  Finding a better way to present these spaces lead me to unearth the folding screen structure.  Later emerged the Folded Axis Work and non-flat imagery.

Born in Chicopee, Massachusetts in 1951, and after a childhood in Akron Ohio, I received a B.S. degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and worked as a research physicist for 11 years.  Platinum/Palladium printmaking and negative building were studied in 1985-86 under the instruction of Sal Lopes, a master photographer and photographic printmaker.  Having a strong interest in photography, the discipline was pursued full-time since 1986.  Milestones include: first Pt/Pd print in 1986; first custom built enlarged negative in 1986;  first folding screen in 1989;  first Pt/Pd print on fabric in 1990.
 

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