Pamela
Camhe
“Auto
Reflective”
Photographs
Pamela Camhe made the decision to show
her new work, for the first time, in the Photographers East
Group Show at Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton, New York,
April of 2006. She was awarded “Best In Show”. Robert Long,
writing for The East Hampton Star, said of her photographs,
“They succinctly mark the border between Photorealist
painting and pure photography.” Delighted and encouraged by
this wonderful reception, Ms. Camhe continued to develop
this distinctive body of work.
Pamela Camhe has been known throughout her career as a fine
art, portrait photographer, exploring non-traditional
beauty and glamour. She worked in her Canal Street Studio
in New York City for nearly 30 years, photographing friends
and performers and printing her own black and white
photographs.
Her work from this time period appeared on CD covers,
posters, and publicity materials for a number of recording
and performing artists. She traveled throughout Europe
showing a “slide movie” of her fine art work. She had
one-woman shows at the Canon Gallery in Amsterdam, and at
the Photographics Unlimited Gallery in New York City. She
has also been in several group shows including those at
Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, the Melkweg Gallery in
Amsterdam, and Pen and Brush, and the Wooster Street
galleries in New York City.
When she closed her studio in 2004, to relocate to Long
Island’s East End, instead of concentrating on
photographing the picturesque farms and beaches, she found
herself back on the city streets, this time, with digital
camera in hand. Instead of shooting people, she was drawn
to the play of light, color, glass, metal, chrome,
architecture and sky, in the city she loves.
These images became her new Auto Reflective Series. What you see is what she captures in her camera. The images are not digitally constructed.