Photographic Artist, Sarah Conners-Hazel "Schazel"

Admirers have described Sarah's art, including her emerging study of Sandpoint's historic architecture, as having an Impressionistic style.  Her passion for photography united with an interest in impressionistic painting developed into the hand-manipulated photographic art that has become her trademark.  Although the final image may look similar to a painting, it is in fact a photograph.  Sarah exposes her original 35mm transparencies onto Polaroid SX-70 film and hand manipulates the film's dyes and emulsion using a variety of tools throughout the development process.  The subject matter of  her art is the historic buildings, local merchants, city scenes, vintage cars, country life, as well as other observations of Sandpoint and the surrounding areas.

Artist Statement: Many people have asked me, what do you take pictures of?  The answer is:  My photographs vary in subject matter, theme, and context.  Generally, I look at the world through a lens, with or without a camera.  I am always looking for the unusual, the minuscule, and the beauty in details, something special and unique, the abandoned, and what I think may go unnoticed.  Waiting is also part of it, because much of the time that something special comes into view when I stop seeking it.  I look forward to every new "image" day because I am relentlessly seeing something new about photography and about existence.  Photography will continually be a lifelong enlightening experience for me.