Introduction

Diana Hooper Bloomfield, a photographer for the last twenty-five years, lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina. Diana has received numerous awards for her images, including a 1985-86 New Jersey State Visual Art Fellowship and several Regional Artist Project Grants from the United Arts of Raleigh, most recently for 2003-04. Diana received Golden Light Awards from the Maine Photographic Workshops for her images, in both 2003 and 2004. Her photographs have also appeared in several publications, including in the third edition of Eric Renner's Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique; in the Pinhole Journal; the Post-Factory Journal; and in the January 2005 issue of Chinese Photography. In 2003, Diana co-curated, with Gregg Kemp, "Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography" at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston Salem, NC, and in April 2005, curated "The Lensless Image: Contemporary Pinhole Photography," at the Upstairs Gallery, in Tryon, NC. She also organized the 2004 exhibit, "Old is New Again: Alternative Processes," at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, in Greensboro, NC, which later traveled for exhibition in the 2004 Pingyao International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China, and throughout various locations in Beijing.

Diana specializes in pinhole and in 19th Century printing techniques, including platinum/palladium, cyanotype, and hand-tinting. She teaches at various locations in the North Carolina Research Triangle area, including the North Carolina State University Crafts Center in Raleigh, and through Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies in Durham.