Insta-Con – Connie Imboden

connieimboden

For over 35 years I’ve been photographing the nude in water, often beneath the surface, & reflected in scratched partially de-silvered mirror shards

Coming up OCT 12- Visual Illusions Level 2 with @n

Coming up OCT 12- Visual Illusions Level 2 with @nordphotography_workshops!
LIVE through Zoom on Wednesdays, beginning Oct 12 and wrapping on Dec 7. Details and registration link below and in bio 🙂
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Visual illusions are not only fascinating, they are powerful. It plays with the line between knowing and seeing. We think we “know” something but our eyes tell a different story. This ONLINE course is about ways of exploring, discovering, developing, and utilizing the influence of illusions beyond mere tricks of seeing to compelling and poetic communication.
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Read more and register at https://www.nordphotography.com/course-visual-illusion-level-2

Just returned from Iceland. The combination of the

Just returned from Iceland. The combination of the magical landscape and the vision of my truly talented students was powerful. Enjoy!
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@nordphotography_workshops #fineartphotography #photography #nudeinlandscape #inspired #grateful

REIMAGINE THE HUMAN FORM in ICELAND: SEPT 11 - 16,

REIMAGINE THE HUMAN FORM in ICELAND: SEPT 11 - 16, 2022, with @nordphotography_workshops
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That’s right! In just TWO MONTHS, we’re heading to Úlfjótsskáli, Iceland for a LIVE, in-person workshop! We have a 10 participant limit, so be sure to check it out and sign up before spaces are full. Scroll right to see our GORGEOUS location and accommodations, and see below for more info. Registration link in bio as well 🙂
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Black sand beaches, electric blue ice caps, dramatic fjords, volcanic craters, and seemingly endless lava fields: a STUNNING landscape that will serve as the backdrop for exploring the human form. Registration is almost full- don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity!
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https://www.nordphotography.com/icelandconnieimboden
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#photography #photographyworkshops #fineartphotography

•AUG 15 – AUG 19, 2022• We’re heading back

•AUG 15 – AUG 19, 2022•
We’re heading back to Maine in 2022 for Visual Metaphors: a LIVE, 5 day in-person workshop on the beautiful coast at the @mainemedia Workshops and College!
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Aristotle says in Poetics: “the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor...”
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Metaphors are powerful yet nuanced ways to communicate. As the basis of poetry, they are highly effective in conveying complicated ideas, combining surprising images, and making profoundly moving connections.
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Metaphors are not limited to words, and in this class we will explore how visual relationships can develop compelling images. To create these metaphors we will explore various types of reflections and discover comparisons with spatial relationships.
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For more info, check out the link below or in bio!

https://www.mainemedia.edu/workshops/item/the-visual-metaphor/

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#mainemedia #mainemediaworkshops #visualmetaphors #photography • photo by Alexis Mpaka

I had a wonderful and engaging conversation recent

I had a wonderful and engaging conversation recently that brought up the question of working with the body- specifically, why?
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My interest in photographing various disruptions and alterations of the human form began as a young, angsty art student at the @marylandinstitutecollegeofart . I had taken to creating a series of self-portraits where I experimented with cutting, scratching, and even burning negatives. This image was the result of something like a photomontage, cutting two negatives and adjoining them together in the enlarger, while placing tape on the glass to make it appear to piece together the broken image of my self. Although it was not my intention to reveal the insecurity and identity issues I kept hidden from the outside world, these self-portraits - in retrospect - were expressions of my desire to conceal what I feared to be dark secrets, to hide my true self behind the veil of a mask. In this case, the duality of the broken individual I felt I was on the inside and the sad, quiet mask I wore to hide it on the outside. I was, of course, unaware of it at the time- it has taken many years to fully grasp the meaning behind these images and understand their significance.
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Over 35 years later, I'm still fascinated by the potential for the body to be used as a vehicle for expressing the most profound emotions – love, sorrow, anger, ecstasy. It is a powerful subject that can force us to confront ourselves and how we see the body; our reactions, our discomfort, or our attraction. It has the potential to push us to witness the depth of our own humanity, provided we have the courage to look and the capability to see past our initial judgements, preconceptions, and visual assumptions.
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#photography #fineartphotography #blackandwhitephotography #connections #visualart

Ever since incorporating color into my work with t

Ever since incorporating color into my work with the mirrors, I have been drawn to the power of the color red. Sometimes it is dominant in an image, occasionally lighting an entire figure in red, while other times its presence is a little more subtle, as in this image, Untitled #06-25-15-176. The red comes from a cloth that was draped on one side of the mirror- an inclusion that had been explored after seeing the blue of a yoga mat in the studio accidentally reflected in several images. Before then, I had never even considered using color in the space SURROUNDING the figure, nor as cloth to introduce it, but once I considered the potential I began to wonder what other colors and methods I could experiment with.
In this image, though it's edges are hardened by the shape of mirror shards, the red feels to me like a reinterpretation of the flowing fabric incorporated into so many baroque and renaissance paintings, such as in this detail of Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian (1520-1523). Painters of these era's would use such dramatic drapery as methods of metaphor, sometimes to articulate an expression, to illustrate a more mythological environment, or even as a way to define the human form while simultaneously concealing it... and more often than not, for all of the above.
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#admiration #inspiration #influence #photography #fineartphotography #titian

Some of the latest work in the mirrors continues t

Some of the latest work in the mirrors continues to bring familiar layers and forms together in ways I haven’t seen before, blurring the lines between where one body ends and another begins…
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#photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation #illusions

A couple spots left still available for the upcomi

A couple spots left still available for the upcoming Visual Illusions Level 1 with @nordphotography_workshops!
LIVE through Zoom, every Monday between April 25th-June 13th. Details and registration link below and in bio 🙂
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Visual illusions are not only fascinating, they are powerful. It plays with the line between knowing and seeing. We think we “know” something but our eyes tell a different story. This class is about ways of exploring, discovering, developing, and utilizing the influence of illusions beyond mere tricks of seeing to compelling and poetic communication.
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Read more and register at https://www.nordphotography.com/visual-illusions-level-1

More recent work from early 2022, continuing with

More recent work from early 2022, continuing with this strange, ethereal twisting and transformation of forms. Some of these images strike me at how they almost make anatomical sense, and then the more I look at them the stranger they get…
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#photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation

Visual Illusions Level 1 with @nordphotography_wor

Visual Illusions Level 1 with @nordphotography_workshops is just around the corner!
LIVE through Zoom, every Monday between April 25th-June 13th. More details and registration link below and in bio 🙂
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Visual illusions are not only fascinating, they are powerful. It plays with the line between knowing and seeing. We think we “know” something but our eyes tell a different story. This class is about ways of exploring, discovering, developing, and utilizing the influence of illusions beyond mere tricks of seeing to compelling and poetic communication.
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Read more and register at https://www.nordphotography.com/visual-illusions-level-1

The “Becoming” talk with @peterbruunartist and

The “Becoming” talk with @peterbruunartist and @kenroysterphotography was an absolute blast! Peter is such an insightful artist and curator, and I was delighted by some of the threads he observed throughout the course of my work- including this fascinating visual connection between a very early photograph (mid-1970’s) of a tree trunk and an image from my early explorations shooting in the mirrors.
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There’s so much more in the talk, I was truly impressed with how much ground we were able to cover in the time we had, and far too much to share here… so I’ll leave it up to you to see for yourself! Link below, and in my bio 👍
ENJOY!
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https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/689382596
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#photography #fineartphotography #blackandwhitephotography #connections #visualart

TOMORROW! Sign up for this FREE event to get the Z

TOMORROW! Sign up for this FREE event to get the Zoom link and join us over space and time for a discussion on the creative path and decision making!
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The second event in a three-part series hosted by @peterbruunartist called BECOMING, @kenroysterphotography and I will be discussing our creative processes and artistic journeys through a live Zoom broadcast on March 16th, 7pm EDT. Registration is open through EventBrite via the link below and in my bio!
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-connie-imboden-ken-royster-tickets-253060319227?keep_tld=1

The second event in a three-part series hosted by

The second event in a three-part series hosted by @peterbruunartist called BECOMING, @kenroysterphotography and I will be discussing our creative processes and decision making through a live Zoom broadcast on March 16th, 7pm EDT. This online event is FREE, and registration is open through EventBrite via the link below and in my bio!
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-connie-imboden-ken-royster-tickets-253060319227?keep_tld=1

You’ve left footprints in my heart…😂 • #H

You’ve left footprints in my heart…😂
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#HappyValentinesDay! ❤️
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#fineartphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photography

Recent work from 2022… • #photography #through

Recent work from 2022…
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#photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation

Announcing the first actual LIVE, in-person worksh

Announcing the first actual LIVE, in-person workshop in over 2 years! REIMAGINE THE HUMAN FORM in ICELAND: Apr 3 - Apr 8, 2022, with @nordphotography_workshops
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Black sand beaches, electric blue ice caps, dramatic fjords, volcanic craters, and seemingly endless lava fields: a STUNNING landscape that will serve as the backdrop for exploring the human form. Registration is almost full, but there are a couple spots still available! Link below and in bio….
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https://www.nordphotography.com/icelandconnieimboden

Egon Schiele - The Dancer, 1913, and Untitled # 01

Egon Schiele - The Dancer, 1913, and Untitled # 01-12-16-192, 2016.
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Love the similarities in the gesture and overall feeling between these two. The mirrors in 01-12-16-192 give the figure the same hard edged and exaggerated limbs as Schiele’s rendering of The Dancer.
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#admiration #inspiration #influence #photography #fineartphotography @egonschieleofficial #egonschieleart

This just in… @nordphotography_workshops for Ear

This just in… @nordphotography_workshops for Early 2022 announced! Link in bio for more info…
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Image Articulation: Jan 19 - Feb 9
4 weeks, 3 meetings, Wednesdays 1pm-3pm EST Online via ZOOM
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Visual Illusions, Level 1: Apr 25 - June 13
8 weeks, 6 meetings, Mondays 1pm-3pm EST Online via ZOOM
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REIMAGINE THE HUMAN FORM in ICELAND: Apr 3 - Apr 8
LIVE, in-person workshop to be held in Úlfjótsskáli, Iceland - 10 participant limit
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It’s going to be a great year 🥳
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#photography #photographyworkshops #knowledgeispower #alwayslearning

January is always a time for resolutions- of looki

January is always a time for resolutions- of looking back on the past while simultaneously considering the future. January got its name before the year 1000 from Middle English, ultimately deriving from the Latin noun use of Jānuārius, equivalent to Jānus…
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When I made the image I call “Dead Silences”, I was in my second year of grad school. In a critique with 8 fellow students and the professor, one student mentioned that it reminded them of a “Janus” face. Rather than admit that I had never heard of “Janus” before, I nodded in agreement with most of the other students who seemed to understand what this statement meant. I did however research it afterwards, and was surprised at just how accurate this observation was:
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According to Wikipedia, “In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past.” Thinking of this, it is no surprise the ancient deity is the perfect symbol, the ideal manifestation, of new beginnings...
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Wishing you a happy new year, insightful retrospection on 2021, and exciting new beginnings in 2022!
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#Janus #mythology #fineartphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photography

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