Bloody Hands, 2025 centers expressive cyanotype artwork around gesture as narrative fragment—the title suggesting violence or guilt while the visual language remains poetic rather than documentary. The cyanotype process amplifies contrast and texture, transforming hand motif into something archetypal. Hand-coating introduces material unpredictability: stains, tonal shifts, and surface variations becoming active storytelling elements. The work speaks through symbol, not spectacle.
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific
representation, a personal story, and is the result of a recorded assemblage composed of parts (objects that have a special meaning or prints made from assimilated, previously taken author's photographs).
The photographic analogue process is almost obsolete in today's age of modern technologies, but at the same time it is especially valuable for that very reason. By combining two photographic methodological principles: old and new photographic techniques, the series Let me tell you a story unites exactly these two approaches - digitally captured photos converted into large-format negatives and analog prints using photographic techniques (cyanotype) from the 19th century.
Acquire this expressive cyanotype artwork where symbolic gesture is transformed through hybrid photographic process—material unpredictability as narrative. Bloody Hands, 2025 by Dubravka Lazić. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Expressive Cyanotype Artwork – Bloody Hands by Dubravka Lazić
BloodyHands, 2025
From the series Let me Tell You a Story
Cyanotypeon Hahnemühle Fine Art 300 gms paper
Sheet size: 80 H x 60 W cm
Image size: 61.5 H x 41 W cm
Unique
Unframed
Handwritten signature on back
Dubravka Lazić, graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (1997), then received her master's degree at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade (2000) and her doctorate at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (2013). Educated as a painter, photographer and filmologist, she currently teaches at the Novi Sad Academy of Arts as a full professor, and also part-time at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. In the period from 2011 to 2016, she taught at the Faculty of Applied Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade and was also a guest lecturer at Universities abroad (West Attica University Athens, Communication University of China Beijing, Ludwigsburg University of Education, École supérieure de design Troyes).
During her academic career, she was the head of the department for New Fine Media and Photography (2007-2012), vice dean for artistic work and international cooperation (2012-2024) at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, as well as the president of the Expert Council for Humanities and Art/Art of the University of Novi Sad (2015-2021). She has been a member of the artistic council of the Platinum Gallery of the SANU branch in Novi Sad since 2016. Dubravka Lazić's artistic and exhibition activity has been active since 1998. She exhibited her works of art at numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. She is also active in the field of theoretical authorship and is the author of several published scientific works, articles, one book and a textbook. She is an organizer and a member of several commissions of the University of Novi Sad, as well as other professional organizing committees and juries, and a manager, consultant and participant in many art projects.
