ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Oyster, lobster, shiitake, and pine mushrooms captured my imagination. My creative vision uses their bizarre and varied shape, alien textures and intricate detail combined with composition and lighting skills to create crisp images with a dose of abstraction. The abstraction makes them open to more than one interpretation. It depends on the viewer’s imagination to use their own memories and experiences to build content.

I have taken a minimalist presentation against a square black background not to distract from the images powerful poetic voice. The created creature, life form, or face is not beautiful or cute but rough, strange, and weird and speaks metaphorically with people’s diversity, uniqueness, and unusual identities that are not accepted and approached in society.

AUTHOR
Contemporary fine art photographer Dale M Reid took charge of her destiny by making a commitment to herself and her life partner and soulmate.

Reid’s belief in herself has allowed her to chart a new course in life as a full-time professional artist and transgender woman. As Dale transitioned through her new life journey, she developed technical skills, questioned convention, trusted her instincts, and with her passion, was able to craft a distinctive artistic voice. Her artwork ranges from classical to sensual to erotic and engages the viewer to question what they see.

Owning who we are, respecting and trusting our character, and engaging people has allowed Dale to be accepted as a respected woman and professional artist.

In this digitalized world of pop art photography, Dale's unique traditional monochromatic images contain elements of being a painting or graphite. The lack of color allows the viewer to focus on the variety of textures and the richness of interesting lines and shapes that engage in an elegant, visual synthesis in each photograph.

Reid developed her artistic style with a strong focus on creating landscape images ranging from maritime to urban to industrial views. Today, her artwork is primarily created in the studio where she imbues botanical subjects with unimaginable personality and emotion.

Dale has achieved international recognition through participation in solo and group exhibitions, receiving awards and having her artwork published in print and online.

Dale M Reid is currently based in Toronto, Canada.

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