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When Eli Reinholdtsen traveled with me for the Italy Within The Frame workshop this spring, she very quickly endeared herself to me not only as a wildly creative and fun individual but also a fantastic photographer. I had profiled some of her work last year in the Within The Frame podcast series and was introduced to her work then, but when she put a self-published book called “Folk” into my hands at the breakfast table at Monterosso al Mare, I was captivated. And spent the rest of the day thinking about the images she’d created.

Eli has this thing for reflections and capturing moments in shop windows and broken glass, but what makes it remarkable, in much the same way I marvel at some of Elliott Erwitt or Cartier-Bresson’s work, is her choice of moments and juxtapositions. She creates wildly different photographs using a small handful of honed techniques and a knack for timing the moment and creating contrasts that do more than just pull the eye; they allude to a story. It’s that deeper suggestion of story that I most enjoy in her work and for that reason I asked her to share some of her work and her thoughts about technique and process as it relates to how and why she photographs as she does.

It gives me a tremendous amount of personal pleasure to release today the newest publication from Craft & Vision – Eli Reinholdtsen’s Chasing Reflections, the 3rd in the Print & The Process series. I know this is going to be one of my favourite books and hope you get as much pleasure and inspiration looking at these as I did for the first time this spring.

Chasing Reflections is a available now for $5 but if you purchase it before August 2nd you can get your virtual hands on it for $4 using this coupon code: REFLECT4 or save 20% on 5 or more eBooks with this code: REFLECT20. Sorry, these discounts apply only to the PDF downloads, the iPad apps are still $5.