During her life behind the lens, photographer Marcia Trieger has shown her work in over a hundred shows across the world, taught at the renowned Antonelli Institute in Pennsylvania and founded the BFA program in Digital Photography at the Art Institute in Tampa. Upon leaving academia, Trieger opened Blind Spot Fine Arts in Tampa, where she could finally sell the work she spent a life creating. And as of this past December, Trieger and Blind Spot Fine Arts have moved to Bradenton.

“I started going through all my negatives and slides and I realized that I had an inventory,” said Trieger, who hadn’t planned on starting a business out of her home, but couldn’t resist the temptation. After a career teaching photography, it only seemed right to share. At the moment, Trieger operates out of her home and conducts business mostly through her website, but that could change.

And with a curriculum that included the history of photography, Trieger incorporates more than the usual photographic techniques in her work, and customers will find digital and fractal imagery alongside historical methods such as Leonardo Da Vinci’s pinhole cameras. Perhaps the most striking are the cyanotypes, made from an early technique wherein the artist combines two chemicals into a photosensitive solution, paints an image onto paper or fabric and then develops the image under UV light. Currently, she’s working on a new line of rolling designer luggage, complete with her prints on the outside.

But Trieger wants to do more than sell art in her time in Bradenton. In Tampa, Trieger was also a member of the Florida Museum of Photography and Las Damas de Arte, a group of women artists dedicated to increasing scholarship opportunities for young women artists in the community, and hopes that through Blind Spot she can find ways to become similarly involved in her new home. “I felt that I was doing some good for the community,” said Trieger, who plans to host photography workshops in the future and find other ways to engage the public. “And that’s a dream of mine – to become really involved with the Sarasota-Bradenton community.”

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