Jeri Eisenberg

Jeri Eisenberg is a photographer who works primarily with non-traditional and alternative photo based techniques. Based in upstate New York, her largescale, abstracted images of the treed landscape are captured with an oversized pinhole camera. Her best known and enduring series, A Sojourn in Seasons, consists of five chapters, four seasonal chapters in color and one in black and white. Pointing her lens on trees and foliage, she captures them as they are not often depicted. Eisenberg represses or subverts traditional photography's emphasis on the representational qualities of the medium, and emphasizes instead the medium's expressive nature. The images are segmented and presented as translucent panels of diptychs, triptychs or quads, printed on Japanese Kozo paper and infused with molten encaustic medium. As the images fade in and out of recognizable form, they echo our ephemeral grasp on life. As Eisenberg has said, "It is comforting to know that despite the loss of definition, essential qualities endure."