Jenny Fine

I recall my childhood as one long breath of my grandmothers' stories, and though I was young, I knew I was being given these stories for a purpose and that one day I too would become a storyteller. Spending most of my life in Alabama, and recently moving to Ohio, I have become increasingly aware of the stories, which are a part of both my history as a Southerner, and our collective American history. It is through the use of wet-plate collodion, mixed media photography and stop motion film that I reenact my southern narrative. I am interested in antiquarian photographic processes, in breathing new life into historical techniques. I think that there is a wondrous weight to old photographs; though the images may be static, the stories they tell are not.

Jenny Fine is from Enterprise, Alabama and received her BFA at the University of Alabama in 2006.