Silent Photography

Name: Silent Photography
Address: 201 County Highway 155, Broadalbin, NY, 12025, US
Telephone: +1 518-288-5757
Rating: 3.4

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The Silent Jane Studio offers Commercial & Real Estate Photography, Fine Art, & Photo Restoration.

The Silent Jane Salvage page will soon be gone, as it is merging into SilentJanePhotography as soon as META engineers can get to it.

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201 County Highway 155
Broadalbin, NY
12025

Telephone

+1 518-288-5757

Website

https://silentjanesalvage.com/

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The Silent Story

Welcome to the Silent Jane Salvage FB Page, blogging about the Exhibitions, Events, Studio, Photographic Restoration, Fine Art, Silent Photography, Decor, Repurposed & Original Antique items by Janene Bouck. SJS offers photo restoration & retouching and accepts photographic manipulation work on commission. The art, photography & related services can be viewed & purchased online and at the SJS studio in Broadalbin, NY. Please call 518-844-5024 for appointments and more information.

Janene’s Statement about Silent Jane Salvage:

I started the work of Silent Jane Salvage in 2014, in response to a series of personal tragedies. In 2015, Silent Jane Salvage became a home-based business. I chose the business name for many reasons. I use Jane as a professional name simply because it is easy to remember and a contraction of my given name, Janene. Silent is a pretty funny oxymoron if you have ever met me. However, that is not the reason I chose the word Silent. For me, Silent is also a significator. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in my twenties; a nasty, silent illness that affects 10 million people in the US alone. I am also reminded to be grateful for my health each day, even though I also experience chronic pain from the back injury at work that diminished my active lifestyle in 2013. Then, I left my full-time job to care for my grand-niece several months later until I became very ill in 2014. None of my health issues are apparent and nothing I experience is life-threatening. Not in spite of this but BECAUSE of all this, I am specifically aware and reminded every day that I am blessed to be able to use my body and my mind to create.

I lost my sister to cancer that began in her ovaries, spread through her GI tract, then settled in her Pancreas in the summer of 2013. From there, cancer took over her body; her life was extinguished in March of 2014. Wendy Bouck left behind a legacy that was filled with children who needed her. In a poor attempt to substitute the full-time support that she had provided to her grandchildren, I left my job and started working from home selling my restored furnishings and various artworks.

I became suddenly ill in August of 2014. I experienced an undiagnosed event that left me bedridden for weeks. As a result, my weakened immune system couldn’t protect me and I contracted Epstein-Barr Virus, developed pneumonia, and experienced an exacerbation of my fibromyalgia and other changes that continue to affect me daily. Unable to maintain a job or even the guardianship of the little one, I worked daily to regain my health.

Many people suffer from invisible illnesses, silent maladies that prevent them from completing the simplest of tasks. I may have bad days. It is sometimes hard to attend a scheduled event, to keep that appointment or enjoy that party. I have to remind myself that I do not need to apologize for being sick. As long as there are good days I will treasure them. I work hard when I can. I hope to continue to share my view of this beautiful world for a very long time, and I hope you enjoy what I can offer, a silent view of this beautiful, wonderful, and terrible world.

Artist’s Statement: I am inspired by the constant beauty of Upstate New York and seek to preserve the wild nature of my surroundings. My goal with any of my work is to use the most environmentally safe practices while creating art and decor or restoring photography and furnishings from finding or vintage items. I enjoy restructuring and embellishing while honoring the original form, aesthetic and history, as it applies. A large portion of my current work is devoted to digital photography, an endlessly reusable media.

Each composition is part of a personal journey that I want to share with the viewer. A digital image can be recycled and reused with little environmental impact. One image can create a collage of memories, textures, and light. Some of my digital images are absolute to the image as it was photographed, only slightly embellished using only the types of techniques available in a darkroom. My digital photographs are sometimes painted digitally, utilizing an endless array of techniques to enhance the final image. In some cases, my final artwork may be built from multiple exposures and/or photographs then edited and recreated as a new image, arranged within found materials, and is often manipulated by hand to create my finished work.

I have always created drawings, mixed media art, and paintings. I studied the graphic arts, interior design, photography and CAD at Fulton Montgomery Community College, Herkimer County Community College and Sage of Albany in upstate New York. Whether working with photography, painting or creating from found items, most of my inspiration and materials originate in the lush Adirondack Park and the historically rich Mohawk Valley region. I am drawn to the complexity of historical objects and the effects of age on the ordinary. Rust, patina and even decay deepen colors and textures and hold shadows more firmly. I work from my home in Broadalbin, New York. My "silent photography", including historical photographic restoration, is created in my studio, Silent Jane Salvage and is shown there and by exhibition.