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Artifice triumphs over nature in the photographs of P.J. Rogers, who trained as a painter, became known as a printmaker but is self-taught in photography. She shoots flowers—often ones from her own garden—with a digital camera and uploads the files to a computer. Approaching a photograph as she would a painting, she alters and adjusts light, color, edges, texture and other characteristics of the original image in Photoshop. The velvety black background is entirely generated in the computer. In this image, two fading tulips take on anthropomorphic qualities as one bends over to protect the other.

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