Sake Barrels - Limited Edition 1 of 25 Photograph by Steven Richman

Photography: Digital, Color, Manipulated, Woodcut on Canvas, Paper.

Inspired by Edo-era Japanese woodblock prints, I worked with a program to create the effect, but customize each image through adjustments of the numerous filters and allowances of the program. If the original woodblock artists designed the image but relied on others to actually carve the wood, then there is an analogy to the photographer making the image and relying on a computer image processing program to do the "carving" to specification.