Description
Pick Pocket Dress
image – 28×16 inches, paper size 32×22 inches
Archival Pigment Print
Value – $1500
It is part of The Dressings Project, a body of work that celebrates female identity. Pick Pocket is an archival pigment print, made from a scanned original chemigram.
Marky Kauffmann has been working as a fine art photographer, educator, and curator for more than thirty years. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Fellowship in Photography. Recently, she won First Place in Soho Photo Gallery’s National Alternative Processes Competition, and was a finalist in the 7th Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Worldwide Gala Awards in three categories, including portraiture, landscape, and fine art photography.
Kauffmann has been a freelance curator for many years. Her first curatorial endeavor, Beyond Mothers and Children: New Feminist Photographers, featured the images of six women photographers working on issues surrounding the lives of women and girls. In 2015, she helped curate Veiled Rebellion, an exhibit featuring the work of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Lynsey Addario, at Milton Academy’s Nesto Gallery. Kauffmann’s exhibit, Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers has traveled extensively throughout New England.
Kauffmann is a passionate educator who has taught photography at numerous secondary schools in the Boston area. She also spent twenty years teaching adults in the New England School of Photography’s Workshop Program.
Kauffmann is in love with photography. She utilizes darkroom techniques, alternative processes, and digital technologies to create her unique images.
instagram: @marky.ek
