February Featured Artist

Caroline Penris

{Long Ago Party by Caroline Penris}

{Classified Past by Caroline Penris}

I’m looking for abandoned factories, hospitals, greenhouses, airports and other strange destinations. I wander and wonder around, making photographs of details caught by time.    

- Caroline Penris

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Caroline Penris

Featured Artist – Feb 2012

click to view caroline’s series on aamora

Artist, photographer & designer, Caroline Penris, is based in Groningen, The Netherlands. Fascinated by the unexpected beauty of things chipped, discoloured, torn & broken, Caroline travels in an old VW bus to forgotten places throughout Europe to photograph. View her website, her flickr or check out her book, Discoloured.

February Featured Artist

Caroline Penris

{Chimney Pieces by Caroline Penris}

{Chimney Pieces - 2 by Caroline Penris}

I’m looking for abandoned factories, hospitals, greenhouses, airports and other strange destinations. I wander and wonder around, making photographs of details caught by time.    

- Caroline Penris

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Caroline Penris

Featured Artist – Feb 2012

click to view caroline’s series on aamora

Artist, photographer & designer, Caroline Penris, is based in Groningen, The Netherlands. Fascinated by the unexpected beauty of things chipped, discoloured, torn & broken, Caroline travels in an old VW bus to forgotten places throughout Europe to photograph. View her website, her flickr or check out her book, Discoloured.

February Featured Artist

Caroline Penris

{Whispering Wallpaper}

{Life On Earth}

{Screenshots}

I’m looking for abandoned factories, hospitals, greenhouses, airports and other strange destinations. I wander and wonder around, making photographs of details caught by time.   

- Caroline Penris

click to view caroline’s series on aamora

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Caroline Penris

Featured Artist – Feb 2012

Artist, photographer & designer, Caroline Penris, is based in Groningen, The Netherlands. Fascinated by the unexpected beauty of things chipped, discoloured, torn & broken, Caroline travels in an old VW bus to forgotten places throughout Europe to photograph. View her website, her flickr or check out her book, Discoloured.

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Caroline Penris

Aamora’s Featured Artist for February 2012

The world through Caroline’s eyes . . .

{Draperie}

{Wealth}

{Old Money}

I’m looking for abandoned factories, hospitals, greenhouses, airports and other strange destinations. I wander and wonder around, making photographs of details caught by time.  

 - Caroline Penris

click to view caroline’s series on aamora

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Caroline Penris is an artist, photographer and designer, based in Groningen, The Netherlands, fascinated by the unexpected beauty of things chipped, discoloured, torn and broken. Caroline travels in an old VW bus to forgotten places throughout Europe for her photography. Find more of Caroline’s work at her website, her flickr or check out her book Discoloured.

Antique by Dawn Duffield

For me, there is something romantic about items that existed long before I came along. 

Things, like people, that have managed to survive decades, even centuries, often show their history in marks of endurance and occasional abuse.

Individuals who have suffered through war, the loss of a loved one, loneliness and despair can be the most loyal, lifelong friends.

When I restore vintage and antique items, I know that one day long after I am gone, a story will be told, a story about love and endurance, and how they don’t make things the way they once did.

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Painter, designer & photographer Dawn Duffield is from Tampa, Florida. Enjoy Dawn’s work at projectdawn or here on aamora.

Ybor City is one of only three National Historic Landmark Districts in Florida.  Cobblestone streets and very large, old cigar factory buildings make up this historic and legendary town.  Founded in 1886 by Vicente Martinez Ybor, Ybor City became “the cigar capital of the world” by 1900.

The factories were worked by mostly Cuban cigar makers, and to a lesser degree by Italians and Spaniards.  By the early 1950′s the cigar factories were gone.

Ybor was revitalized in the late 1990′s and now attracts large numbers of visitors due to the wide variety of shops, restaurants, clubs,  and galleries; and of course having a hand-rolled cigar is a must while visiting.

Dawn Duffield, a painter, designer and photographer from Tampa, Florida, is the newest member of aamora. She tells us: “What I am most interested in is light and human nature. My work mostly comes from my subconscious in an emotional language that people seem to understand.” — You can enjoy more of Dawn’s photography at projectdawn.net.