Portrait nominee

The Pulchritudinous Children Picture Day is a narrative told through digitally manipulated photographs and terrifically terrifying and astoundingly amusing prose.

In this ongoing series, I have set no rules and no boundaries. I have happily married various art forms (oftentimes merging my photographs with elements from found photographs and scans) to create my unconventional subjects.

Within the past 2 years, Tawny Chatmon has redirected her signature style of ethereal sunlit children's photography into mediums outside of just photography. Tawny is a self taught artist who has been working in the field of photography for the past 16 years.

Born in Tokyo, growing up an ‘army brat’, she had the unique opportunity to take in the cultures of three different continents all before the age of 12. By then she was in the United States and elbow-deep in her aunt’s theatre company. She studied theatrical arts from the age 12 to early adulthood. After receiving a scholarship for dramatic arts, she switched paths and focused her interests on being behind the camera. Her background unquestionably contributes to her wide range of talents.

For Chatmon, her photographs are the first layer which she manipulates and unites with other photographic components. Thereafter she often adds overlappings of gold leaf, paint, digital collage and illustration. Doing so, she produces a work that is more than just a work of photography but a new photographic expression.