Edie Bresler

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Bresler’s work has been featured in Slate Magazine, Photo District News, Lenscratch, Business Insider, Esquire Russia, and on PBS Greater Boston. She is a Critical Mass finalist 2016 and 2014 with solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston Center for the Arts, Davis Orton Gallery, and Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography in California, and numerous group exhibitions. Edie writes regularly for Photograph Magazine and leads the photography program at Simmons College in Boston.

Edie Bresler’s projects combine the medium of photography with social and collaborative actions. Her latest series, The Blues & other possibilities, is comprised of unique works made collaboratively with others. Large wall constructions composed of unique cyanotypes are made with participants from various communities. A camera-less process, cyanotypes are made with sunlight to create a silhouette of whatever is in direct contact with the prepared pages. Participants lie down, reach and stretch across sheets of vellum, hand-coated with a light sensitive emulsion. A relational action in the moment and again many days, weeks, months later when Bresler combines cyanotype moments together like a human jigsaw puzzle. Bresler’s titles tell us the number of people involved and how many different days and moments are combined to make the final collaboration, for example, 6 people (1 day, 1 place), 2019.