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Please send me an email: sanne@sanneart.com if you would like to purchase images or just share your thoughts on my photography.
For my website portfolio please go to www.redprincessproductions.com
Bio & Portfolios
I studied Graphic Design and Photography at Massachusetts College of Art, with Abelardo Morrell as my first teacher, shooting 35mm black and white film in my Nikon FM2 and printing my own images. This first class impressed me so much that I enrolled full-time at New England School of Photography to study photojournalism. During that time I also took classes in printing and color with Neil Rennie, a master printer, who tought me about the finer points of color printing techniques and technical aspects of image making.
After graduation I started shooting weddings and model portfolios, and stringing for local newspapers, before moving west in 1989. You can see some work from that early period in my portfolio entitled “35mm”. While the type of camera used does not say much about the images produced, I feel that in my work there is a distinct connection of what I photographed to the equipment used, and there is a progression from 35mm to Holga to Hasselblad to Digital. Thats why I grouped my portfolios in such a way.
The Nocturnes
In 2001 I signed up for a course in night photography with the Nocturnes in San Francisco. My instructors were Tim Baskerville and Lance Keimig. That started an entirely new exploration of image making. I became fascinated with what I saw on film that was so totally different from the darkness I perceived with my eyes. I
I initially shot 35mm film with my Nikon FM2, but soon I wanted to make images on a bigger negative. Since I could not afford a decent medium format camera, I bought a Holga for about $20 and did a bit of research on how to disable the shutter and before long I was making images with it.
During this time the internet also started exploding onto the photography scene, and I created my first website featuring my Holga photographs. The Holga night images became very popular and I started receiving many requests to explain how to make these images. That’s why I created a page on my site specifically dedicated to Holga questions.
I eventually bought a better camera, a Hasselblad, and loved the improved quality of the images I made.
Before long I started shooting digital, which was a very different process to me, requiring exposures of a few seconds or minutes not the usual 30-45 minutes I did with the film cameras. There are also a lot more settings to consider before shooting, from iso to white balance to noise reductio. These were all things that before were determined by the film, used and by the processing afterwards.
I have exhibited my images in several one-person and group shows in the Bay Area, and was part of Lance Keimig’s Darkness Darkness Show at Harvard University in 2007. My images are also in many private collections in the US and Europe.
Purchase images
My images are also for sale as prints, framed or mounted on aluminum. Please contact me for prices.
I like to print images on metallic paper ( Kodak Endura) which gives a luminous effect, especially for larger sizes. Some of the panoramic images can be printed up to 8 feet wide and mounted on aluminum for a stunning presentation in your home or office.
A selection of my images are for sale at Getty and istockphoto.