Pomegranates - photogravure print - The Weekly Edition

Pomegranates - photogravure print - The Weekly EditionThe pomegranate with its mythological and sacred history, beautiful sanguine colored skin, and sensual shape are one of my favorite still life objects. When I was small my grandparents had a tree in the backyard and my mother made my favorite jelly from the deep red juice. I think this is part of my attraction to this exotic feeling fruit so I have made many photographs over the years. This hand pulled photogravure print is made with Charbonnel

Hand-pulled print by Ray Bidegain

I am always on the look out

which connects the left bank of the river Garonne to the right bank quartier de la Bastide

Ray Bidegain

I was stunned by the beauty of this Oak tree with a light fog in the air

some by others from history

This hand-pulled polymer photogravure print is made with Gamblin stiff bone black and sepia ink

and Madder lake red inks on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

I have been spending much of my time this year working on what is next and taking chances with my work as a photographer and printmaker

" the photographs are mostly self-portraits and speak about my experiences as a middle-aged man

It stands in the Latin Quarter

The pomegranate with its mythological and sacred history