Lynne Brietfeller is a New Jersey-based photographer who explores the nuances of everyday life, human relationships, memory and loss, and transience in her work. In her series After the Fire: Water Damaged, she revisits negatives that had been damaged in a fire and reconsiders ideas of permanence versus impermanence, the imperfection of recall, and reconciling loss.  She will share her experience with us, as well as her approach to working with archive images.

A Q&A will follow her talk. 

Artist Bio:

Lynne Breitfeller is a photographer who lives in New Jersey. She explores the nuances of everyday life, examining both the ordinary and unexpected. Human relationships, memory and loss, transience, and humor are recurrent themes in her work. She received her B.A. in English from William Paterson University and studied photography at the International Center for Photography (NY), Los Angeles Center for Photography (CA), and Maine Media College (MA). After a two-decade career in text book publishing, she returned to the visual arts. Her work has been exhibited at The Griffin Museum of Photography (MA), Center for Fine Art Photography and Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CO), Vermont Center for Photography (VT), Los Angeles Center for Photography and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (CA), and Montclair Art Museum (NJ) amongst others. She was recognized in Photolucida’s 2023 Critical Mass Top 50, received the 29th Annual Member Exhibition Prize 2023 at the Griffin Museum, first place in Soho Photo National Competition 2023, and a finalist 2022 Lucie Foundation’s Open Call 2022, Portrait Category, Her work has been featured in Lenscratch, Fotofilmic, Analog Forever, SilverGrain, Black + White UK, SHOTS, and All About Photo magazines.