Fiona Pardington, NZ photographer, DocFA at Elam. A major show of 100 of her photographs was on display at the Wellington City Gallery recently.
Her work has "a painterly quality that visually reference seventeenth century painting traditions as well as the 16th century vanitas traditions. The images are not only memento mori ['remember that you have to die'] in the provision of poetic signs of time passing and things dying - from dandelion clocks to gecko skins - but of cultures meeting across seas"
Aesthetically they are quite similar to my white-on-black prints (this is why Judy suggested her as a reference to look at.)
