Summer Darkrooms:
Travel and New Projects

My summer began with a couple weeks as an artist-in-residence at the Hampshire College Creative Media Institute, where I taught a workshop and made some new work. The personal highlight for me was having the opportunity to photograph Michael Lesy and Elaine Mayes.

After the Creative Media Institute, I set up a darkroom in a trailer on my mother’s property in Maine to make portraits and to do some photogram experiments.

I then spent an intense weekend of shooting at West Point, where I was researching family history and making a series of new portraits as part of Found Unfound.

I took additional trips to New Orleans and Chicago for openings and went several thousand miles in the car with all my equipment and the kids!

-Keliy Anderson-Staley

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