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Lisa Siciliano is a full time self-taught, professional photographer. Over the last 26 years she has made art working as a house photographer for Red Rocks, The Boulder Theater, The Colorado Sound, Chautauqua Music Hall, Bellco Theater & Marquee Magazine. Her black & white photos are taken on 35mm film, hand processed, & in many cases printed in her own basement darkroom. Lisa has photographed over 30 album covers, captured numerous promotional band photos, and even has her work displayed back stage at Red Rocks, on the wall at The Fillmore Auditorium, Cloud Medical offices, in the Lobby of The Boulder Theater, backstage at Bellco Theater and in numerous homes around the world. She has worked with music producers, record company's and band publicists nationwide. In addition, Lisa photographs weddings, portraits, promotional photos, and events. Most recently, Lisa launched her passion project Lumin which aims to shed light onto marginalized people, forgotten culture & the unseen. She seeks to create images that will help us see each other more compassionately.
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Humans have always had a complicated relationship with weather. Ancient cultures prayed and made offerings to gods in hopes of receiving conditions conducive to growing crops. Adverse weather, then, w…
Humans have always h…
Humans have always had a complicated relationship with weather. Ancient cultures prayed and made offerings to gods in hopes of receiving conditions conducive to growing crops. Adverse weather, then, was often interpreted as displeasure on behalf of those same beings—a punishment for failing to observe proper rituals. It doesn’t take a history scholar to understand this impulse. Weather, now as then, is both an enemy and ally. On one hand, it provides everything from the raw material for food—sunlight driving photosynthesis, wind the primary method of plants spreading their seeds—to …
Sometimes, writing about art and theater feels a lot like falling down the proverbial rabbit hole as I try to find the angle to write about wandering through a haunted-theater immersive experience, ge…
Sometimes, writing a…
Sometimes, writing about art and theater feels a lot like falling down the proverbial rabbit hole as I try to find the angle to write about wandering through a haunted-theater immersive experience, getting splashed in a Halloween horror show in the basement of a spaghetti emporium, sweating through a DIY D&D in a comic shop, savoring (har har!) Sweeney Todd’s enraged high notes, and trying to quiet my howling dog in a public house. I’ve found myself in some odd and awkward scenarios. To update the metaphor, writing this column is a lot like drunk-clicking through an endless algorithm o…
Gregg Allman, shot at The Boulder Theater photo by Lisa Siciliano shot on 35mm film This creation was done "working wet." Lisa processes her own photos shot on 35 mm film. This is truly old sch…
Gregg Allman, shot a…
Gregg Allman, shot at The Boulder Theater photo by Lisa Siciliano shot on 35mm film This creation was done "working wet." Lisa processes her own photos shot on 35 mm film. This is truly old school. It adds a vibrance and depth not possible with digital processing. The picture truly radiates. Even with that darkroom magic, the image itself must be as fabulous as this one to give a picture the greatness that is displayed here.
Cooling off in Boulder Creek on a hot, late summer afternoon! Photo by Lisa Siciliano Shot on 35mm film. Boulder Creek, Boulder, CO
Cooling off in Bould…
Cooling off in Boulder Creek on a hot, late summer afternoon! Photo by Lisa Siciliano Shot on 35mm film. Boulder Creek, Boulder, CO