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Archival Natural Color Photography
Making photographs brings imagination, light, nature, time and space together with a transcendence to reality for me. I make ethereal images depicting that nether realm between real and fantasy. Working exclusively in natural light, I emphasize natural surrealism while engaging the emotions evoked by the natural realm, especially the mystery or magical essence of light-play in the world. Photography provides me an expressive channel that goes beyond traditional language where the transitory quality of light exceeds to endure. My pictures emerge through imagination and experience with the interaction between light and subject supported by a keen interest in natural history. Extending my pursuit of authentically imaging the essence of light-subject interaction, I personally make all of my photographs and create individual, archival, photographic, digital color pigment prints.

My images rarely refer to a specific location. They may point to places both distant, and near, all the while reaching toward the receptive places within the viewer. I seek not only to capture the physical realm, but also to move beyond. The world experienced through the lens is where I encounter the intimacy of realism face to face in communion for the deeper beauties in surrealism.

Capturing what I see in the camera remains primary in my work, striving to match the natural image for direct color printing. My images originate using vintage and advanced modern cameras to image what I see in nature. Using archival color pigment digital printing techniques and materials, I create luminous prints with full natural color and tonal depth on acid free, 100% cotton fiber, fine art paper. This allows me to create individual, finished prints as faithful to the natural image as possible and of heirloom quality, in signed and numbered limited editions. Finishing each print includes 8 ply museum matte and solid natural cherry or white maple framing.

Using the print as a record of growth and a means of sharing, I pursue greater connection with my medium and how light graces each subject. The advent of digital print making enables a level of control and quality long exclusive to black and white darkroom prints. I find digital color pigment prints increasingly satisfying with truly archival quality, luminescence, accurate color quality, and full natural tonal depth. Fulfilling my goals of sharing the results of photographic imagery remains my 42 year passion through fine color archival prints. I strive for dual goals with all of my work: 1) authenticity in every image, and 2) creating heirloom quality work with each finished piece.

 - Marv Poulson
Photographer & Naturalist

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Marv shooting among Mojave desert wildflowers in the wet spring

 

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