Lois & Tom White Collaboration

As a photographic artist, Lois draws upon her textile and knitwear design background to weave ideas, concepts and experiences with her camera.

For her, the use of the lens is less about capturing a moment and more about an intent or visceral experience that is palpable to the viewer. For Lois, the camera is the conduit between the real and the emotional.

Her abstract work involves single frame in-camera long exposures that express the gestures and motion of light. The results are otherworldly impressions like ethereal paintings and drawings.

Tom & Lois White are cofounders and artists in residence at WHITEPOINT. Both are visual artists working in photography-based new media.

“It is important to me to challenge the traditional understandings of photography and fine art and remove typical distinctions of what a photograph or painting is and allow the viewer to focus on the image without being defined by the medium.”