{"id":1151,"date":"2019-07-23T20:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T20:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2019-07-27T12:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T12:55:50","slug":"tiff-j-tiff-sutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/2019\/07\/23\/tiff-j-tiff-sutton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiff j Tiff Sutton & the “visual style of vulnerability”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tiff j Tiff Sutton Photography creates photo zines. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0STL SPEX (Rachel): What are your artistic influences?<\/strong>
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Henri Matisse, Richard Avedon, James Vanderzee.
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STL SPEX: Who do you create for?<\/strong>
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I create work to add to the African American artists’ canon. It is my hope that others will view my work as a part of a larger history of Black women making images. 
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STL SPEX: What are your favorite tools and\/or effects how do you use them to create your art?<\/strong>
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The non biological love of my life is photographic film and film cameras. Most of this work was created with those tools.  It is a draining process, but film creates the greatest photographic effects, such as color saturation, a soft focus, and the ability to create multiple exposures in camera instead of Photoshop. 
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STL SPEX: How do you choose settings for your portraits – what are you looking for in a location?<\/strong>
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I choose my settings based on what I can control. Lighting, colors, comfort of models specifically is what I look for in a location. For me the studio is that place. I also like a blank slate. 
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STL SPEX: In your artist’s statement, you mention that your portraits of women are “post-impressionistic” – what led you to this particular visual language?<\/strong>
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I am inspired by French post-impressionists and the aesthetic they create. What I want to achieve is the same softness to the images of women with fruit. That visual style speaks a lot to the vulnerability of the models and of myself as an artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.tiffjtiffsutton.com<\/a>
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