About Tim Ruane
Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.
Would it be possible to explain your process with these photos? I’m not too sure if they are actual photos. They are interesting. I think of Man Ray because the pen becomes something other than a pen. Again, curious, are you working with inanimate objects and transforming them by playing around with saturation?
Dorothy — Gosh, thanks so much for your response and thoughts and consideration. You are getting at what I am doing. I shoot with this fabulous pretty-old Samsung point-and-shoot digital, which I hold together with a piece of Scotch tape. Invariably, I underexpose or over expose, usually I overexpose. Then, usually, I edit heavily, changing, hue, contrast, brightness, color and saturation, and often I invert and polarize. I have a hard time actually, not in finding pictures to take (I do take pictures of people, too), but in choosing how to make them. This digital stuff, which I opposed for… Read more »