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Photo of the Week #260

Barbara Jaffe

Negative photographic image of a bird framed in a blue tinned negative photo image of a forest.

Forest of Ghosts 5, 1992-2016
Archival pigment print 
24 × 20 in.
Edition of 15 

Description

August 28, 2023
Barbara Jaffe has devoted herself to exploring the poetic implications of the negative image. By focusing on this fundamental element of film photography, she has developed a highly personal means of expression. In her Forest of Ghosts series, which comprises the 2nd half of her book, Dark Sun, she offers an emotional response to the loss of animal habitats around the world, imploring us to see animals and the natural world with fresh and newly sympathetic eyes.