Scott McMahon, a professor of art at Columbia College, creates images through historic photographic processes, focusing on the ephemeral and impermanent qualities of life. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, McMahon’s work has been widely exhibited and published, appearing in venues like the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe and the National Media Museum in Bradford. Hibernal features landscapes captured using pinhole and zone plate techniques, printed through the 19th-century gum bichromate process. This process, with its rich palette of color and ability to manipulate light and shadow, allows McMahon to explore temporal qualities, creating intimate, meditative views of the natural world that read more as memories than crisp representations of reality.
