Online Group Exhibition - "Memories in Artifacts” January 2021
Analog Forever Magazine is pleased to showcase 36 images in this month’s online exhibition, entitled “Memories in Artifacts.” Curated by artist and Analog Forever Magazine Social Media and Community Manager, Lynn Bierbaum, these photographs explore the human-made objects that become artifacts as they interact with our past, live in our present, and sometimes predict our future. Created by photographers from around the globe in both traditional and unconventional ways, they make you wonder, what do the objects in our lives say about our time spent here on earth.
Lynn Bierbaum writes: An artifact may appear as just a manmade tool or object created to serve a function. But they can also represent so much about ourselves. They can symbolize a loved one, a belief, a historic event or childhood memories. I felt it was important right now in the current world events to connect to each other and focus on self-reflection.
In this “call for entry” I was looking to see other people’s personal artifacts that helped them reflect back on better days, as well as form them into who they were. I wanted to connect to the photographer with these images without ever knowing the story behind the artifacts.
I found myself connecting personal memories to the artifacts submitted. Seeing parts of myself in other photographers’ images, in return making parts of me feel connected to them without ever knowing them personally. Although we all have differences it was encouraging to know that there are simple mundane items and objects that can connect us to one another.
The image that I choose to be a favorite of the Memories in Artifacts online exhibition was “Pine Tree Legacy” by Kevin Hustarelli. This image in particular incited many personal memories to myself and others.
- Lynn Bierbaum
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About the Curator
Lynn Bierbaum is a Minneapolis based Alternative Photographer and Glass artist. She is an avid traveler who is always looking for her next place to photograph. She started working in film back in 2010 and alternative photography in 2015 starting with Platinum palladium and then moving into other processes such as albumen, salt, van dyke brown, and wet plate collodion.
Lynn is also a glassblower who has traveled across Europe and the United States assisting, and working with well-known glass artists. Most recently working for the Corning Museum of Glass, in upstate NY.
Her current fine artwork is printing wet plate collodion on her blown glass forms. Lynn’s work strives to find a balance between two and three-dimensional planes. She blows the glass vessels to create an extension beyond the photograph that is just as important as the image itself.
She has been recognized in Analog Forever Magazine as an interviewed artist in the 1st issue, Runner-up in Modern Collodion’s 2019 Wet Plate Competition, and featured in multiple issues of The Hand Magazine.