Liz Vaughan
October 2011
Photographer, artist, animator from Tuscon, Arizona
Liz Vaughan
Liz Vaughan print

My work is mostly concerned with emotional relationships with landscape and urbanscape. My process starts with photographing an area. This allows a real intimate relationship to be formed between me and my surroundings by way of camera. I photograph things like abandoned buildings, old vehicles, vegetation and any object that seems to stand out to me. In the studio I use a hybrid combination of digital negatives and historic process printing. Mainly I work with cyanotypes which I sometimes tone or manipulate. After I have acquired photographic imagery I collage 2-d works in compositions that are layered and intricate. I also will animate the collage pieces in order to produce stop-motion animation that are accompanied by sound compositions made by guitars, found objects and ambient sound.