Jane Long describes herself more as
a digital artist than a photographer since she has most experience in graphic
design and has only recently worked with shooting her own images. Long
encourages stock images since that is what began her work in photography and
because projects come up that need them such as this project. This particular series
Dancing with Costica involved the
manipulation of Romania photos shot around WWII by photographer Costica
Acsinte. Restoring these images includes the healing brush, dodging and
burning, adding or decreasing contrast, controlling highlights and shadows,
masking and of course adding color and new elements not in the original photos.
Long’s imagery contains just enough reality and just enough fantasy to create
an in between world where both of these exists and are normal. With Dancing with Costica, Long creates a
story for each image and subject in the image that was not necessarily their
before. These images are mysterious, whimsical and living. Further this project
is a response to the respect Long has from Acsinte’s work as a photographer.
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