When I made my own argentic photographic prints, I sometimes experimented with new ways of using the film. For example, the first time I went to the photo festival in Arles, I visited the old warehouses, now a brand new place with gardens and the Luma tower. I do not remember why, but the light overexposed the images. This accident gave me the idea, as the pictures were about old, dirty and abandoned places, to show on the prints the entire film with the traces of light, dust and scratches. After this, I experimented with putting a 24x36 film in my old Lubitel 5x5, so the images would cover the whole negative. I made a self-portrait and some pictures in the forest this way.

About

Françoise Véron Goldstein. After studies in Dijon and Cergy-Paris (France) National Art Schools, I began to work in a small publishing house in Paris, specialized in photography books, named Marval, where I met some famous french and international photographers of the 1990s. Those artists, some travels and the need to gather moments of my own life encouraged me to make silver photos and print them in black and white in my photo lab. Some of them were published as illustrations in the literary review Contre Vox. In 2001, I bought a house in Auvers-Sur-Oise. I developed a new practice as an artist, using digital photography and painting, installation or other mediums according to the subject. Over the years, I have been a member of some artists groups, and since 2017, of Grap’s association responsible for organizing exhibitions in the town's contemporary art gallery. I focus my work on intimacy, the passage of time, nature and the meaning of life. I use photography - sometimes photographic collages - as a factory of narrative pictures, opening the door to fiction.