bio

Anne Gabriele (b. 1961) is an artist who explores the natural world from the garden to the ocean using alternative and historic photographic processes.  She studied photography at School of Visual Arts in New York City.  Anne works as a photo stylist while remaining committed to her fine art practice.
 
Anne has received the C-Scape Fellowship and Artist Residency at Cape Cod National Seashore (2002), Escape 2 Create Artist Residency (2004), Fire Island National Seashore A-I-R (2019) and most recently Lakeside Inn A-I-R, Lakeside, MI (2024).  She has received artist grants from the Polaroid Corporation.  Her work was selected for the FotoFest Biennial: H2O (2004) and is held in numerous private collections, including the Polaroid Collection of Photography. 
 
A Brooklyn native, Anne now divides her time between NYC and the Hudson Valley.

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about cyanotype

The cyanotype has been around for almost 200 years.  With chemically-coated paper, sunlight, and a rinse of water, the process produces prussian-blue images of great accuracy and delicacy.  These cyan-blue prints had a practical use well into the 20th century as architectural and engineering blueprints and early versions of the photocopier.  But because the process allows for creative manipulation, cyanotypes have always been attractive to artists and photographers.  In fact, they lend themselves beautifully to reproducing nature, as evidenced by what is regarded as the first photographically illustrated book, botanist Anna Atkin's book of algae and fern cyanotypes published in 1843.