EILEEN QUINLAN

EILEEN QUINLAN PHOTOGRAPHY 

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Eileen Quinlan likes to describe herself as a still life photographer. She was born in 1972. She has become well known in recent years as one of the cohort of Photographers.

Quinlan's work is quite straight forward she uses medium and large format camera's and studio strobes to shoot tabletop, house  of cardlike wolds, angular constructions staged for the camera's lens, in which propped mirrors reflect intense colored light, deep shadows, bits of fabric, reflective mylar and especially each other.

 

The finished images are reflected as a kaleidoscopic view with very little of the studio background showing.

She grew up in Boston and in Southern New Hampshire, she attend the school of the Museum of fine Arts/ Tufts University graduating with a BFA in 1996. After moving to New York in  1999. She worked in advertising and fashion as a assistant to commercial photographers, before going on to earn a MFA from Columbia University in 2005.

I personally like Eileen's work as i find the abstract images very interesting with an aspect of mystery about them. I also like the idea of working with smoke and mirrors to add field to the image. 

Images sourced from Google