Elaine Freedman
Elaine Freedman lives in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. She studied photography at the Medicine Hat College Visual Communications Department along with painting, drawing, graphic design, art history, printmaking, and other courses. Her introduction to black and white film photography 20 years ago became her passion and she devotes full time to photography. The film camera has been put aside for digital equipment and computer processing and she has a small lighting studio in her home. Much of Elaine’s instruction in photography has been through workshops and personal instruction from experienced professional photographers. In September 2009 she spent a week with Andre Gallant and Freeman Patterson in St. Martins, New Brunswick. In October 2012 she spent two weeks with Mary Anne and Joe McDonald on a photo safari in Kenya.
As a past member of the Medicine Hat Photography Club and of the Victoria Camera Club, she has exhibited her photography and entered and won many photography competitions. In 2012 Elaine won First, Second, and Third prizes for three different images in the year-end digital manipulated category. The critiques from her own images and those of others have honed her skills. More recently she has been taking online courses through CreativeLive and has completed 14 different courses which she has in her library to refer to.
“Birds in Paris”, an exhibition at the Esplanade Gallery in Medicine Hat from August to October 2012, was Elaine’s first public gallery solo show. This was followed up by “A Moment: Portraits of Women” from March to May 2018. The 70 portraits from this exhibition have been donated and are displayed in the Medicine Hat Women’s Shelter outreach office.