Title: "Pandemic Self Portrait" by Dominic Fonde (2021)
Techniques: Stipple engraved
Description: A self portrait of myself wearing a mask during the Covid 19 Pandemic stipple engraved onto a magnifying glass lens. The blank magnifying glasses were purchased from a Japanese ￥100 shop, the equivalent of a £1 shop in the UK. As such there are imperfections in the plastic of the handles but the lenses were carefully checked to be blemish free. The idea is that it is possible to take something mundane and transform it into something extraordinary. This is an ongoing series of portraits that at the time of writing consists of almost forty portraits.
Email address: dominicfondeglass@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dominicfondeglass/?hl=en
Photographer: Yasutaka Akane
Title: "Pandemic Portrait of Mother and Daughter 2" by Dominic Fonde (2021)
Techniques: Stipple engraved
Description: A portrait of my friend and her daughter wearing masks during the Covid 19 Pandemic stipple engraved onto a magnifying glass lens. The blank magnifying glasses were purchased from a Japanese ￥100 shop, the equivalent of a £1 shop in the UK. As such there are imperfections in the plastic of the handles but the lenses were carefully checked to be blemish free. The idea is that it is possible to take something mundane and transform it into something extraordinary. This is an ongoing series of portraits that at the time of writing consists of almost forty portraits.
Email address: dominicfondeglass@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dominicfondeglass/?hl=en
Photographer: Yasutaka Akane
Title: "Pandemic Portrait of Bird-handler 1" by Dominic Fonde (2021)
Description: I am a regular visitor to Kobe Animal Kingdom, a small zoo near where I live. I particularly enjoy the demonstrations of the birds in flight. This is a portrait of one of the bird-handlers (as ever note the mask), accompanied by a scarlet macaw, stipple engraved onto a magnifying glass lens. The blank magnifying glasses were purchased from a Japanese ￥100 shop, the equivalent of a £1 shop in the UK. As such there are imperfections in the plastic of the handles but the lenses were carefully checked to be blemish free. The idea is that it is possible to take something mundane and transform it into something extraordinary. This is an ongoing series of portraits that at the time of writing consists of almost forty portraits.
Email address: dominicfondeglass@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dominicfondeglass/?hl=en
Photographer: Yasutaka Akane