Biography
Jenny Tomlin has refined her photographic printing practice since completing a Fine Arts degree at the University of Auckland in 1984, then working as a darkroom printer in Auckland, Sydney, and London. From 2002 to the present, she has run Jenny Tomlin Photographics, a darkroom printing service from her home in West Auckland. Alongside fine art printing and consultancy, she has developed her own photographic art practice, with numerous exhibitions, works in private collections, and workshops that promote pinhole and analogue photography as a creative medium.
Artist Statement
Jenny Tomlin is an experimental photographic artist inspired by darkroom analogue and lens-less processes, particularly camera obscura and pinhole. She builds cameras from found objects and works with the material nature of photography - light, paper, chemistry, and time - to investigate environmental cycles and dualities of growth and decay, negative and positive, and inside and outside. She is fascinated by the subversive way these cameras see.
