Charlie Eileen is an artist and photographer living just beyond the edges of St. Louis, Missouri, where city echoes meet fading sky in blurred horizons as industrialization continues its never-ending march forward.
In her artwork, Charlie explores enchanted abstracts, recreations, social observations, and the thoughts often ignored or left unsaid. She is drawn to the emotional debris left by places and people, and to the quiet tension that settles when reality conflicts with perception.
Drawn to moments where ordinary life fractures, Charlie’s photography captures scenes that hover between documentation and omen. Nothing is staged. Nothing announces itself. Nothing in her work screams; instead, it whispers. An abandoned window, the silent protester and his sign, the ruins of a natural disaster, and yet, the very beauty of nature itself. She records these moments in time, documenting the world as she sees it before it changes again, or vanishes entirely.
Charlie holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications from Arizona State University, bringing a storyteller’s instinct to every frame and brush stroke. Her work doesn’t just represent what is seen, but what is felt in the moment between moments.
She works the way one might explore a dream, slowly and with great curiosity and attention to detail. Charlie invites the viewer to look again at the familiar and discover both the wonder and the unsettling truths that lie just beneath the surface.
Editing Standards for Photography
My photography falls into two camps: journalistic and creative. Therefore, I use two different editing styles.
Journalistic photography gets minimal editing, with only auto adjustments to tone, contrast, and color to make the photo sharper but without overdramatizing it or changing the intention and interpretation of the shot.
Creative photography gets dramatic editing to make details in the image pop and evoke certain emotions.
Please note that some of my photography could fall into either camp and that the style it is edited with is entirely dependent upon my intention for that photo. For example, my protest images will always receive my journalistic editing style, while abandoned buildings, while documenting urban decay, will often receive my creative editing style.
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