Biography
Danny Conant is a Washington D.C. area fine art photographer whose
work has appeared in many national publications. Her specialty
is photographing figures, then she uses a number of alternative
processes to produce her beautiful imagery; platinum, silver gelatin,
Polaroid emulsion transfers and beyond the digital prints.
Retiring from teaching so she could fully immerse herself in her
photography, Conant has studied photography and printmaking. Her
studies have allowed her to work with Ralph Gibson, Olivia Parker,
Elizabeth Opalenik, Greg Gorman, and Joyce Tenneson.
The view through Conant’s lens exposes the world of a traveler
whose witness to provocative sensuous images of figures that are
at once earthly and ethereal. Her imagery always respond the sensual,
tactile surfaces of a print and one of the first things she thinks
about are "does that picture make me want to touch it?"
The transition from traditional photography to her current artistic
process results in mixed media works that are both visually and
physically dimensional. The art works now having a very tactile
quality, drawing the viewer into the surface.
Conant’s extensive travels have taken her to the far and
near east. Multiple trips to China and Tibet have allowed her
to delve further into the spirit and culture of the regions. Her
most recent work, "Tibetan Journey",
is an extensive collection of beautiful and diverse artworks,
on paper, fresco and a book.
Artist Statement
"My artistic
career as a photographer was born out of my desire to record
what I was seeing in my travels to the remote corners of China
and Tibet. Soon I was learning the insides of a darkroom and
transforming photographs. The first time I watched an image
appear in the developing tray, I was captivated by the "magic"
of it all. Today photography remains magical to me. Transforming
photographs, manipulating the imagery both by hand and with
the computer to give them the tactile quality that makes the
viewer want to touch it, is what I love.
Over the years of travel I’ve witnessed speeding changes
of our globe and with the camera I’ve recorded it. A Tibetan
monk walking around in his traditional red robes wearing brilliant
white running shoes, a co-mingling of cultures. From within
the computer I am able to co-mingle the disparate elements into
one, unlike our world today. My work reflects both a desire
to touch and feel the world, as it does to inform the viewer
of my desire for us all to understand one another. Not so much
to be one great globalized unit but to revere and celebrate
our co-existence. "
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