Recently, John started a yearlong photographic
project that began when he was commissioned to
do a series of “vintage” images for a new business
in Tampa. His photographs celebrate the essence
of body and form, as he printed them himself and
then painted over them with thin washes of paint
to achieve a subtle, early Hollywood look.
With the precision he learned during his architectural
training, John uses high-end professional
In “Mirror Moods,”
John captured a
vintage mirror
that he found
surrounded by
natural light.
printers with pigment inks on the finest archival
German-milled paper to create his hand-pulled
reproductions. These works are then sold to
individual collectors and other commercial
users.
EDITOR’S NOTE: John Canning can be contacted
at (813) 254-1046.
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