Amanda Ross-Ho on OMEGA and Her Creative Origins

For her contribution to Ordinary Pictures, Amanda Ross-Ho worked with movie industry prop fabricators to create a large-scale, hand-made replica of the photo enlarger she remembers her parents, both artists, using when she was a child. Titled OMEGA (2012), it represents the origins of her creativity: “From a very young age I had access to the idea of manipulating something–not just taking a photograph, but scaling it, manipulating it, dodging and burning, and really producing a picture.”