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Vashon Feature: October 2002

Jenn Reidel: Photographer & Writer

We are thrilled to feature Jenn Reidel's work here at KotaPress! Hope you will browse here to see some of her photography work and read a bit about her artistic views and bio information. *Then* tune into 89.1FM (if you live on Vashon) or www.VoiceOfVashon.org (if you live off-island) on Tuesday, October 29th, to hear Jenn as the featured writer on WORDS, our live, literary arts, radio show!!

1. It all started for her the evening the three women appeared to her at the bar. It was so startling she spilled her drink.

From In her dreams series
Color photo
3.5 x 5 inches
Copyright 2002, Jenn Reidel

2. The man she slept with didn’t notice her trapped under the sheet.

From In her dreams series
Gelatin silver print
3.5 x 5 inches
Copyright 2002, Jenn Reidel

3. Her neighbors liked to peek in her window. They heard she was growing wings.

From In her dreams series
Gelatin silver print
3.5 x 5 inches
Copyright 2002, Jenn Reidel

4. She heard about a woman missing in the village. Later she saw a woman rise up from a stream. The woman was she. She watched herself dive. She did not see her again.

From In her dreams series
Color photo
3.5 x 5 inches
Copyright 2002, Jenn Reidel

Artist Statement
I am a conceptual fine art photographer and I create narrative installations that are informed by my own myths as much as by my viewers'. My recent work, In her dreams, is an installation that comes from 14 years of night dreams and what could be garnered from notes made the next day. These notes, as well as subsequent visions, inform what I do with the camera and how I act out these dreams before it, using a self-timer and relying on the moment—all those unframed things that a woman lives out before and after the photograph.

Artist Biography
Jenn Reidel earned a three-year certificate in Fine Art Photography on a full scholarship from the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle. She was awarded an Artist Trust GAP grant for her series In her dreams. Her photographs are published in The Sun magazine and her work was recently featured in this year’s Bumberbiennale: The Portrait Project.