About Us
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​We are artists and educators with a passion for photography based in Colorado. We began by meeting regularly to share artwork, techniques, and ideas, and together we came up with a plan to share our knowledge and expand our community.
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Jacqueline Webster – biography
Jacqueline Webster is an artist and arts educator who utilizes photography as a way to understand the pieces of life that intrigue her. By employing photographic processes developed in the 19th century, she creates handmade objects that help translate the world around her.
Named one of Colorado’s Top 100 Creatives by Westword in 2017, she has work in private and public collections. Jacqueline has a varied exhibition history, ranging from curated shows, juried exhibitions, and participating in artist festivals across the western United States, where she has received several awards.
Located in Golden, Colorado, Jacqueline is a former faculty member at Art Students League of Denver and a current instructor for Colorado Photographic Arts Center. A graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, she has also studied alternative and historic photographic processes at the George Eastman Museum, as well as Scully and Osterman Studio in Rochester, New York.
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Website: jwebsterphoto.com
Email: jackie@lightpoets.com
Instagram: @jacquelinewebster.photo
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Emma Powell is an artist who primarily utilizes alternative and historic photographic processes. At the heart of Powell’s work are fictional narratives in which a character encounters curious and surreal scenarios. Powell uses digital collages and creative manipulations of photographic materials to create the fantasy aspects of her images. Powell earned an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and taught photography for a decade at Colorado College and Iowa State University. Powell now leads photography workshops at Penland School of Crafts, Maine Media Workshops, Light Poets Guild, and other educational institutions. Powell has exhibited her work widely, including at the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey in England, the Panopticon Gallery in Boston, the Path Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, Walker Fine Art in Denver, and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver.
Portfolio: www.emmapowell.photo
CV: CV
Email: emma@lightpoets.com
Instagram: @emmaobscrua
Wendy Constantine is a fine art photographer, printmaker and designer based in Broomfield, Colorado. Her work examines the fragility of the natural world and man-made landscapes, finding beauty in the overlooked and the traces we leave behind. Her vision is influenced by the aesthetics of early modern photography and pictorialism. Wendy’s artistic practice blends modern technology with 19th century analog processes including photogravure, salted paper, platinum, gum bichromate, gelatin silver and carbon transfer.
Her passion for handmade photography and printmaking grew out of a bachelor degree in studio arts from UCLA, followed by a masters in museum studies at Harvard. She has a background in graphic and experience design, and today she is a product design director for a major educational publisher. She is a founding member of the Light Poets Guild, a trio of photographic artists dedicated to teaching and exploring historic and alternative photographic processes.
Portfolio: wendyconstantine.com
CV: CV
Email: wendy@lightpoets.com
Instagram: @wconstantine