Paula Chamlee: Living a Photographer's Dream

Interview with Paula Chamlee, an 8x10" large format photographer, darkroom printer, painter and educator. She is living in an artist’s paradise in the middle of Pennsylvanian woods, a place so beautiful one would never want to leave. A fully custom-built darkroom, painting space, charming gallery and an impressive library, spacious painting room, own mat board cutting & framing facilities, as well as an enormous archive of large format negatives and darkroom prints, plus own publishing company too!

It has been a fascinating, very long talk, and cutting it down to 15 minutes was truly difficult. We talked about everything: Paula’s discovery of large format, her beautiful marriage to Michael A. Smith and their lifetime of dreams and adventures, saving Kodak AZO contact printing paper, and growing as an artist of two mediums simultaneously.

The best support for Paula’s work is buying her books (one more stunning than another)
My favorite book from Michael A. Smith & Paula Chamlee:
https://www.lodima.org/shop/chicago-l...

Websites
http://michaelandpaula.org
http://artsofourtime.org - non-profit foundation
http://lodima.org - about the revival of AZO + publishing