If you’re born in the Himalayas and schooled in Paris, France, how could you not grow up to be a photographer of cowboys and kink?
Apart from being one of the hottest projects to come out of Vancouver, Norbury’s first book, Behind the Chutes: The Mystique of the Rodeo Cowboy, was nominated for the ALA/YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. She’s won the Canadian Country Music Award for Patricia Conroy’s Bad Day for Trains, Vancouver’s first prize for colour photography, and had work in such reputable magazines as Saturday Night and MacLeans.
In thirty years of printmaking, Rosamond has perfected her technique of using two separate printing plates to give a duotone effect to her prints. Producing photo intaglio prints in this way allows her to control the placement of ink and to manipulate the plates by embellishing marks already present or by adding her own. Intaglio images are richer than the usual photographic methods, producing an original print each time.
