Jeanine Michna-Bales - the importance of projects

Welcome to today's podcast and boy do I have a special artist for you. I came across Jeanine Michna-Bales through her work with the Yellow Rose project and was recommended by Frances and Meg. Jeanine calls herself a fine artist who uses the medium of photography to explore relationships to society, land and us. I think spending a few hours with her you can totally see this. Have I ever met a person who has put so much in to her projects, quite simply no. The reason I state this is Jeanine normally works on long term projects, including spending 14 years on through darkness to light.

Jeanine has a great soul, she's all about humanity, looking back at history and ensuring other generations know what happened. Although we focus most of the discussion on her "darkness to light" project we do find time for others too. However, the reason I wanted to talk to Jeanine was all about slavery and learning more about it. The story she portrays is all about the people and their attempt at freedom along these routes across America to "free" states and Canada.

I'm leaving some pictures on my website to give you an idea, but please check out Jeanine's website. There you will find out so much more and see the effort she goes to. Obviously do check out her books which you can still buy too.

So in this one we discuss:

discuss importance of history through documents,adverts, maps colonialism Perspectives & telling a story white privilege education shooting at night safety precautions light painting long exposure, choosing cameras large imagery Yellow Rose project suffrage movement

Random questions

Of course Jeanine went through the random one's too, so find out about the new fashion laws.

Links

BBC video - https://adawkinsgallery.com/video/4-bbc-news-jeanine-michna-bales/

Website - https://www.jmbalesphotography.com/

Through darkness project - https://www.throughdarknesstolight.com/

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