INDEPENDENT STUDY: KENYETTA RIDDICK
Summer 2023
In this photography independent study, BYFA fellow Kenyetta Riddick worked with instructor Somer Greer, exploring black and white chemical emulsions. Somer notes, “Not only does a black and white negative allow the photographer to learn the entire image-making process, from taking the photo to making the print; each type of film also has a characteristic beauty. One film reveals great shadow detail, while another accentuates bright areas of the image. Each negative has a random texture to its surface -- a "look" that changes slightly with each picture, never to be exactly repeated.”
Somer Greer is a writer and photographer who lived in Baltimore for close to a decade, working as a writing instructor at Johns Hopkins University and other schools in the Mid-Atlantic. He now lives on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, Louisiana. Currently, he is working on a series of candid photos of Cajun musicians.
