NYU Black Renaissance Noire Spring/Summer 2014 | 页面 20

Elizabeth Turnock

Photography

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11.23.2008

18

I found the creative voice I
had no idea I was searching
for in the seventh grade,
in Cleveland, Ohio,
when I went to a friend’s
darkroom and saw black
and white images appear
in a developer tray.

It was all I needed to navigate a new
life-sustaining passion. I went home,
built a darkroom in my parents’
basement and spent the next five years
there with the negatives from my
Rolleiflex and Nikon. Years later,
topnotch photographers Larry Fink
and Gary Schneider would become
my earliest mentors.
For the past 25 years, I have lived with
Central Park as my front yard, and I
never leave home without my camera.
I had been a long-time holdout from
converting to digital photography,
having spent many an hour arguing
with artists that digital would never be
viable! Forever film! But living in an
apartment on the Upper West Side of
Man