K. Leo Pullin
A Portfolio
Monuments to horses that are as mountains in a distance, 2019-2020
A Dollar Store toy horse, shot with an Android phone, digitally altered with desktop and mobile deep learning algorithms, then Giclée printed on watercolor paper, colored with oil pastels and India ink, reshot, further altered
There was a star danced, and under that was I born. Shakespeare, 2009
Optical light micrograph of a commercially prepared slide of plant reproductive tissues, taken in dark field mode
In the Valley of the Dying Stars, 2008-2020
Original photogram, digitally captured at sundown, then contact printed on gelatin silver paper, then altered over the years
I Will Never Return Here, 2014-2020
Cyanotype photograms on watercolor paper, reshot, collaged, captured on digital SLR, then contact printed on gelatin silver paper, then digitized and reshot
The Warhorse, Tell Me When You're Tired of War, 2017-2020
Another party favor toy horse, shot with an Android phone, digitally altered with free cell phone image editing apps and Photoshop
The Grenadier, 2017
Toy horse and Little Green Army Man grenade thrower, shot with an Android cell phone camera, digital collage elements include a Public Domain image of a grenade, Android app alterations, and Photoshop
I Will Never Betray You, 2009
Bride cake topper shot as gelatin silver photogram, toy soldier shot with flatbed scanner, each reshot with digital SLR, then contact printed on black and white micrograph of etched 1980s semiconductor chip shot on a scanning electron microscope, background color inspired by the same chip shot with reflected light differential interference contrast microscope
Morning There Were Soldiers In The Valley, 2009
High quality flatbed scan of toy soldier, heavily altered, digitally montaged against rice paper shot on histology microscope
Paratroopers in Winter, 2011
Toy paratroopers photographed with a digital SLR on a sidewalk in Tucson against a background of a sepia toned gelatin silver print of trees in winter, further digital manipulations in Photoshop
One who was your father, one who was your brother, one who was your lover, one who was your son, 2007
Toy soldiers shot as photogram on Oriental Seagull gelatin silver paper that was prior altered with fixative
2020 Apocalypse Bingo Winner, 2007-2020
Digitally altered black and white gelatin silver photogram of objects on paper pre-stained with fixative and lime juice
Second Arabesque, 2010
Objects printed as a photogram using cyanotype on watercolor paper
Tucson Crossing, 2010
Train shot with cell phone while siting in my car at the railroad crossing, years of extensive digital alterations
Denver Crossing, 2014
Cell phone image of train and apartments, shot while waiting on the platform at a Denver RTD station, Android app post processing
4th Street, 2017
Cell phone image of train shot at crossing in Berkeley while sitting in my car at night after leaving work, alterations and collage elements from mobile apps and Photoshop
Stockton, California, 2009
Digital SLR image of a fence in urban Stockton, limited post-processing
Tucson, One Summer Day, 2010
Cell phone image of an intersection, mountains in the distance, shot on a summer day in Tucson, when the snow birds had gone home, and the heat had settled in, waiting for a green light, waiting for a monsoon rain
4th Street, Another Crossing, 2017
Cell phone image of another crossing of 4th Street in Berkeley heading home from work after a workday in the dark on an electron microscope
Ripples, 2013
Digital SLR image of ripples under the moving water of the Colorado River, somewhere in a wide area, in California, on a sedimentology field trip with the University of Arizona, very limited digital alterations, if any
Snow Fringes, 2014
Cell phone image of snow melting on a bright sunny morning, but still needing shoveled
Wet Heavy Soul, 2016
Cell phone image of trees heavy with wet snow on a spring day behind the Home Depot in Lakewood, Colorado, the day I decided to move to Las Vegas
Street Tree, Stockton, 2008
Stockton is a beautiful city, with street trees on every block, this is a magnolia somewhere in northern Stockton near Kaiser that I shot on my digital SLR, minimally altered
Tomorrow I Will Not Devour the Universe, 2009
Digital micrograph of chalk in water shot on a portable field fluorescent light microscope, the image code was converted to hex and glitched, many additional alterations in phone apps and Photoshop
Today I Was Hungry, 2016
Cell phone image, Photoshop bleach bypass, thinking about how to make money to get food
He wrote about lions on the beach in Africa, 2014
Dollar Store lion from mixed mammals bag, shot with Android cell phone, heavily altered by multiple Android apps and Photoshop bleach bypass algorithms
Billows Red, 2009
Commercially prepared slide of shark skin, shot on research grade optical light microscope, then made into photographic positive slide, printed on Polaroid film in Vivitar instant slide printer, then digitized and heavily altered with Android apps and Photoshop
The Roommates, A Series: The Snakeskin Wasn't as Bad as the Wounded Pigeon, 2016
Digital SLR image of snakeskin, limited post-processing for color
The One Who Stayed, 1975
Ricoh Rangefinder, Tri-X film, gelatin silver print, reshot many years later on a USB microscope, with post processing in Photoshop
The Cohort, 2013
Digital SLR image, altered with a bleach bypass and additional algorithms in Photoshop
The Smoker, 1976
Digitized gelatin silver print