Inez Lynch Alfaro

Inez Lynch Alfaro is a photographer and printmaker based in Santa Cruz, CA. Her work explores the intersection of gendered power and analog image-making processes. She uses these techniques to explore themes of intimacy, autonomy, and bodily relation to space. In conversation with feminist scholarship, she explores the camera as a means of voyeurism, reclamation, and sanctuary. Fascinated by the concept of a photograph as a distortion of reality, she focuses on self portraiture as a discursive negotiation between the viewer and the subject, the model and the photographer, and the looker and looked at.

on being a body (on being a photograph)

Inkjet Print on Archival Matte paper, 2023.

TBC

$100

Worn

Inkjet Print on Archival Matte paper, 2025.

(Orginal: Chlorophyll Print)

TBC

$75

Girl in Grass

Inkjet Print on Archival Matte paper, 2024.

(Original: Argyrotype)

TBC

$75

My works focus on abnormal or uncanny experiences as the body relates to space. Using processes such as double exposure and direct-to-leaf chlorophyll printing, I examine the relationship between body and environment as figures move between the real and the surreal. Subjects emerge in unexpected ways, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that confronts the viewer with their own assumptions about the bodies they are observing. Instead of being contextualized by the environment around them, subjects intervene in expectations and disrupt their surroundings. Bodies are obscured, melting into the background or binding with the medium. Not only are my figures out of place, but they are inseparable from space, creating new meaning that shifts with each glance.

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