Beth Bischoff

A New York native, Bischoff attained a BA in Arts and Education. She moved to Paris where she studies art and photography at the Sorbonne and the Ecole du Louvre. Upon finishing her education, she began working as an editorial photographer for publications in Paris, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia which provided the opportunity to travel to exotic locations. She began her fine art landscape series during those travels. Her moody, soft images invoke the  spirit of the location.

Nature is the major theme of Bischoff’s work. They are painterly in style and have a reflective, peaceful quality. She was influenced by the photography of Anne Brigman,  Edward Steichen, Adolf Fassbender and other pictorialist photographers.

In 2012, Bischoff started spending several weeks each year based in Merida, Mexico. It was there, visiting the ruins, that she started sensing what it was like to have lived in the villages around the sites, working on building these monuments, and the many lives that passed through the magnificent ancient cities, until their eventual downfall from overpopulation, drought possibly from deforestation, etc. She felt a comparison to present day overuse of natural resources and it’s affect on the earth. 

Bischoff works mainly with B/W film cameras, then digitalizing the film and printing on fine art paper at Light Works Lab at Syracuse University.