Dorothy Shoes is a thirty year old French photographer. “[There's] so much to say without any spoken words. I’m a visual stager and a story teller.”
- background in theater- acted and staged dramas
- bought her first camera a four and a half years ago
- self-taught photographer
- just won two 1st national prizes for her work, After the Prison
- stages a single moment within a story- one the viewer must construct to make meaning
- uses soft digital manipulation (contrast, desaturation, enhancer, etc.)
DEFINING AMBIGUITY IN ART…
- Map/Cues/Clues
- Frozen Moments
- Forcing the viewer to participate
- Narrative comes from the viewer