Cindy Schwartz, studied photography at Miami Dade University.

Influences by, amongst others, Sylvia Plachy, Keith Carter and Rinko Kawauchi.  Cindy's recent colour photography is a big departure from her black and white traditional media imagery, but the originality of her vision is still clear. A Spell in journalism - and internship at Miami Herald Newspaper - and a huge documentary project from a period in the far east of Russia have given her an eye for both the fast snap and the carefully considered images, the blend of which is fundamental to the construction of her latest body of work. An adept in the language of the ephemeral, Cindy's images are summaries of multiple moments, they are surreal inconclusive narratives, sometimes constructed with a wide range of non-digital interventions (collage, montage, distortion of shutter speeds and lenses) sometimes without, but always with an abstraction

 

 of surface which unpins the context of the image, leaves the subject intact but just out of reach, but wide open to interpretation.

Movement and colour, altered with painterly licence, blur the underlying subject with the "ghostly". Veiled with the play of light and shadow on disparate surfaces, these photographs exist in the realm of waking dreams, hovering between a dark interpretation and an innocent one, leaving the question of the "ephemeral" still hanging in the air.
  

 

Cindy photographs with a 30 year old Nikon.