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Every now and again, tradition and technology collide, conjuring up dreams of what the future has in store for us. Enter the QR code of which we don’t understand nor will we won’t try to explain, except that in our relief printing process, it totally works! Enter the age of “smart phone meets smart printing.“
Lauren Henkin, a local prolific Portland photographer, presented us with the mentioned technological challenge. Lauren had recorded an audio tour for her recent show at New Space, a quick scan of the QR code on the pricelist brought insight and embellishment to the viewer’s experience. Thank you Lauren we wouldn’t of tried this on our own.
“Born in Washington, D.C. in 1974, award-winning, internationally shown photographer Lauren Henkin grew up in Maryland, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and now resides in Portland, Oregon.
Henkin is a private educator, reviewer, frequent speaker, Photolucida board member, author of two books, and active member in the photographic community. Her work is widely collected by private collectors as well as institutions such as Southeast Museum of Photography, Beinecke Library, Yale University and Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College. Her work has been published in numerous journals on photography and the book arts including Light Leaks, Shots Magazine, Black+White Magazine, Diffusion Magazine, Flak Photo, Urbanautica, Landscape Stories, Parenthesis and The Washington Post. She is a Px3 multi-cateogry winner, Oregon Regional Arts & Culture Council grant winner, with other award nominations in both the 2010 Brink Emerging Artist and Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. In addition, she founded Photo Radio, an online audio program presenting interviews with curators, gallerists, artists, publishers, educators and other industry professionals.” -Quoted from newspacephoto.org
You can listen to Lauren’s Audio tour of her exhibition at Newspace HERE.
Newspace Center for Photography will be exhibiting new photographs titled Growthby Lauren Henkin. Lauren will also be showing images from three other bodies of work titled Remnants, Fieldnotes and The Lines Between Us, September 2nd through October 2nd.
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Remnants 2 by Lauren Henkin
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