Beatrice Hamblett
Hamblett is an analog photographer processing her own film and prints. In her own words: “Darkroom work involves manual labor and I like working with my hands— from shooting film to final print. I like to think that the method of my work reflects the people I choose to photograph from Appalachian mountain people to Roma women (gypsies) in Greece.”
Her book, Daily Bread: Stories from Rural Greece, is a collection of photographs and stories culled from 10 years of road trips. The Embassy of Greece in Washington, DC and the Greek Consulate in New York City have exhibited her photographs, as well as numerous galleries and exhibition spaces in the US and Greece over the past 20 years.
Hamblett is the recipient of three Artist Fellowship Grants from Washington DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities (CAH) most recently in 2025. Her photographs have been acquired by the Art Bank Collection of CAH and the Federal Reserve Collection in Washington, DC.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Non-fiction Writing from Columbia University, New York, NY. When not shooting film or writing stories she likes to ride her motorcycle over the mountain roads of Skopelos, Greece where she lives during the summer months.
Artist Statement:
“Photography suits the diverse sides of my nature. With my camera slung around my neck, I become an extrovert. I feel emboldened as I go places and worlds open to me. I enjoy connections with people I never dreamed of knowing.
I am an analog photographer, processing my own film and making prints in my darkroom. It is a quiet, unhurried process that encourages the more private side of me. In the dark, I ponder images as they appear in the developer, evaluate them while still wet. I am truly enamored with the range of grey scale that black-and-white photography offers. These are the ‘colors’ of my palette and I am in love with the subtleties this offers my work.
Darkroom work involves manual labor and I like working with my hands— from shooting film to final print. I like to think that the method of my work reflects the people I choose to photograph: people living in rural societies and the traditions woven into their daily lives. People from Appalachia, the Balkans, the Roma (gypsies) in Greece.
A Hasselblad is my “go-to” camera these days, a mechanical beast with a shutter that makes a loud “clunk” when released and a film advancer that winds up like a fishing rod.
As I photograph, I write stories. The two art forms are easy partners. My stories include portraits of people and candid journal accounts of my days in quest of a better understanding of my subjects and the worlds they live in."
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