Celia Durand

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I was born in Argentina and moved with my family to New York due to my husband's job. There I learned the enjoyment of working with clay. During that time I participated in several group showings and received several awards.

Several years later we moved to Washington D.C., just in time for the beginning of the PC era. Proud owner of a very simple computer, I learned programming by reading books and experimenting, and wrote several commercial programs.

Shortly after the 1996 Olympic Games, we moved to Atlanta. Georgia's beautiful mountains and waterfalls -and its coastal towns and islands- awakened in me a need to capture it all.

A digital camera and darkroom were the logical tools. I then started to emphasize in the photographs the colors and the shapes that attracted me in the first place, what I remembered from that particular image, and to soften all that was extraneous to those feelings.

And so they developed into my photomontages, which I print individually, using pigment inks and quality archival art paper and canvas.