Member of the Month
Each month a member of the SE Center for Photography will be randomly selected and featured as Member of the Month.
April 2025
Tim Lachina
even as a child i seemed to cultivate a sympathetic view of the world around me. a group of wilted flowers in an autumn garden or a small fish washed up on the waters edge gave me pause.
through life lessons, i came upon Wabi Sabi, the japanese aesthetic and way of life or a way of seeing the world. Wabi means living with simplicity and nature, Sabi refers to passage of time. Wabi Sabi finds harmony and beauty in the aging process and the transient nature of things.
i was stunned to realize i had been living a Wabi Sabi life and didnt realize it.
with my work, i encourage the viewer to appreciate the beauty of imperfection and impermanence.
March 2025
J. P. Jackson
For many years I have been passionate about making photographic prints. My love for handmade prints has led me to learn several alternative photographic printing processes. All of my images are gathered using analog cameras and photographic film.
These photogravure (intaglio) prints are made using an etching press with etched copper plates that are hand inked/wiped and printed on fine papers. I also make my own gravure tissue that is used in transferring the photographic image to the polished copperplate prior to etching.
These images are my responses to places, events and objects which resonate with me in a visual, cultural and individual way. Sharing these visual communications with other people is important to me. Going forward my plan is to continue working with analog film and making copperplate photogravure prints by hand.
This way of working is slow, very challenging and can be rewarding.
To view more of J.P.’s work check out their Website here: http://www.ipernity.com/home/jpjackson
or Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jackson_john_p/
February 2025
Sandy King
“I am interested in the natural landscape as an abstraction of reality, and simplify composition to focus on the most important subject in the scene. Most of my work is printed in monochrome because the elimination of color forces the viewer to concentrate on the essential elements, be that light, form and texture, or the subject. Context is not unimportant in my work but ultimately the subject is less important than how it is depicted.
Making photographs is an act of discovery, both in capturing the image in the field and in printmaking.”
To view more of Sandy’s work head to his website here: https://sandykingphotography.com.
JANUARY 2025
Michael Hart
I photographed an NBA game at the age of 8, having received a new Kodak Holiday Flash as a gift. My father was the auditor at The Allen County Coliseum in Ft. Wayne, IN, and at that time, the future Detroit Pistons were just a year away from leaving Indiana.
We later moved to Elkhart, IN, and for my 6th-grade graduation, I was given a Brownie Super 27 Camera—which I still have to this day. Remembering my experience with the Pistons, I took the camera to a 9th-grade basketball game at West Side Junior High. Someone on the yearbook staff noticed me and told the yearbook advisor, who then asked if I knew anything about photography, as there was a need for a yearbook photographer. When I admitted I didn’t, he took me into the school darkroom.
The moment I saw that print materialize in the developer tray—well, that was it.
Within a couple of weeks, I started outfitting a darkroom in our basement and later added a studio where I taught myself lighting. I did my first paid work at age 14 and continued doing yearbooks through high school—first in La Porte, IN, then Baton Rouge, LA, and finally Houston, TX.
I went to Austin to attend The University of Texas, which, frankly, I did off and on. Being a boy of the Beatles’ era, I also played in bands. My last band in Austin was good enough to open for the likes of ZZ Top a couple of times, but when it broke up, I knew my future was really in photography. So there was a 20+ year layoff from the bass before I picked it back up for fun— which continues to this day.
Moving back to Houston in 1977, I first worked for six months at Gittings, the premier portrait studio in town. I then formed a partnership with another Gittings photographer, and we opened a studio where I stayed for four years. Eventually, I realized my true calling was in commercial work. So, in 1981, I hung out my own shingle, and I’ve been creating award-winning commercial work ever since—primarily corporate, but also advertising.
Now, as I slowly ease away from assignment work, I find my passion in my personal work—in effect, how I see the world.
Informed by my assignment work, it’s a selective journal of our world, captured as moments in time, space, and place—spanning a lifetime of working behind the lens in both black and white and color. It’s a visual diary, a record of what I have seen and continue to see in the world.
During the pandemic, unable to get out and shoot, I revisited my files and saw many images with fresh eyes. A number of them screamed to be black and white, and much of my recent work has followed that direction—a nod to where it all started.
This year, my images have been accepted into The International Photography Hall of Fame’s “Black and White/Monochrome” exhibit, three consecutive shows of The Texas Photographic Society, and three shows here at The SE Center for Photography—all of which delight me.
Forty-seven years without a steady job. Amazing.
To see more of Michaels work visit their website: www.michaelhartfineart.com
Michael Honegger
I always wanted to be an actor on a stage or in film. Instead, I did what was expected of me by parents and society and pursued a more stable profession that ultimately provided me with the resources to pursue a photographic afterlife. I then discovered that my earlier dream of acting was not beyond reach with the gentle guidance of self-portrait photographer, Arno Minkkinen, in a small Norwegian village that produced my first formal self-portrait, "The Innocent Sleep". That episode prompted an avalanche of "me" starring in innumerable roles and beginning to satisfy those early thespian desires.
This is a project filled with cerebral dreamscapes. The images are the intersection of what is real and imagined. They portray my attempt to decipher a queer life and an identity that has been gradually freed from the masks of constraint and fear. They are my personal human comedy grappling with the darker side of life's occasional random options with grace and humor.
I use glass, mirrors, texture, and light to create a mood or obscure an emotion. The images both confront and retreat as one gazes intently beyond the surface. Masks, meditations, reflections, and the hint of a smile are the unspoken mechanisms that provide a clue to the heart of the matter of who I am. They may impede the truth that lies within…the truth that is the I…a series of visual songs of the various selves that define me.
To see more of Michael’s work: https://www.michaelhoneggerphotos.com/
September 2024
Marni Myers
Artist Statement
In my life, design and photography serve as counterpoints, one priming the other. I have always been sensitive to my spatial surroundings. Growing up in the NW suburbs of Chicago, I would often visit the city and observe the urban grid while searching for color, line, and shape. With a graphic design background, my images challenge my relationship with pattern, texture, and minimalism. Within the subtle beauty of my surroundings, I entice the viewer to wonder what is going on in the image and how it impacts them. I hope my images leave one questioning the subject matter and providing a springboard for discussion.
BIO
Marni’s work has been exhibited in various gallery exhibitions throughout the Denver-metropolitan area, and recently, she is making a national presence. Since July 2004, she participates in solo, and group shows to share her photography and image narratives in the community. Marni is a member of Colorado Photographic Art Center and The Center for Fine Art Photography, and she is currently looking for temporary and permanent opportunities. Marni spends her weekdays as a Creative Director and Graphic Designer. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and continues to take classes in photography, design, and public speaking to enhance her creative toolkit.
To see more of Marni’s work head to https://mmyersphotography.com/
Or head over to Marni’s IG https://www.instagram.com/mmyersphoto/?hl=en
August 2024
Tim Barnwell
Tim Barnwell is a photographer and author based in Asheville, North Carolina, where he has maintained a photography studio for over 30 years. He is one of the most published photographers in the South, having been principal or contributing photographer to dozens of books and scores of magazines.
He is the author of eight books including, The Face of Appalachia, On Earth’s Furrowed Brow, Hands in Harmony, Blue Ridge Parkway Vistas, Great Smoky Mountains Vistas, Tide Runners, Faces & Places of Cashiers Valley and Jewels of the Southern Coast: Architectural Gems of Charleston, Savannah and Beyond.
He also co-produces a YouTube channel, titled, The Face of Appalachia, where he films and writes documentary style videos showcasing mountain farming culture. The channel hosts over 25 episodes and has had over 1.7 million views since it started about a year ago.
Tim’s fine art photography is widely collected and has been included in many group and one-man shows in the US and abroad. His images are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, Mint Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Greenville (SC) County Museum of Art, Mint Museum, Asheville Art Museum, SOHO Photo Gallery, Newark Museum, the Bank of America corporate collection, and Booth Western Art Museum. His photography is represented by Lumiere Gallery in Atlanta.
July 2024
Laura Barth
Laura Barth is a self-taught, multidisciplinary lens-based artist based in the mountains of North Carolina. Primary media include analog and experimental photography, graphite, charcoal, watercolor, and linocut prints.
Originally from the midwest, Laura currently exhibits her work at Calendula gallery in St. Paul and has had her work published, and exhibited across the country. She currently serves as the Digital Media Consultant for Analog Forever Magazine.
The images here came about after periods of reflection and reckoning with significant and often painful moments in my life, which were exacerbated by feelings of grief and isolation from post-partum depression and the COVID-19 pandemic.
I found myself looking through old cell phone photos associated with those memories, which I converted into Polaroids and further manipulated using the emulsion lift process. The resulting images are frequently raw and rough, like I was feeling at the time, and deal with themes of profound connections to nature, mysticism, self-accountability, grief, trying to know the unknowable, exploration/play, and personal mythologies.
The transformed images often become vague and distorted during the emulsion lift process, adding new sensations, feelings, or abstractions, which I frequently embellish further with botanical samples, mixed media applications, or subtle digital alterations.
What was originally a specific memory has become something new and taken on new meaning, often invoking the viewers' own emotions or memories and becoming a new, shared experience.
Check out more of Laura’s work by visiting their Instagram _barth.vader_
June 2024
Laura Krasnow
Laura Krasnow, born in New York City, has lived and traveled throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.
In addition to being a freelance photographer, she has worked as an assistant editor in feature films, and been trained in film preservation and restoration. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, and The Brooklyn Museum.
Her passion is art, science and technology. After obtaining an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she returned to school to study math, physics and computer science. Laura has attended seminars at the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, and the Centre for Brain and Mind, both in Canada.
“I am predominantly a visual artist, using the medium of photography to explore the connections between the artistic and scientific realms of inquiry.
Working with traditional and non-traditional art making tools, including printmaking, digital photography, film and Polaroid film, drawing and paint, I seek to interpret theories of physics, math and neurological research, to reconstruct individual recollections of time, place, and space.
I use the photographic images, with embedded marks and symbols, to construct a specific viewpoint. In the construction of the works, I have been influenced by geographical maps, weather maps, blueprints, ancient symbolic and pictorial written languages, NASA photography, photographs outside the normal human visual range, visual database design, and the use of grids within archeological drawings... with these grids representing both the physical relationship between the found objects, and their spatial relationship over time.
For me, defining a sense of place is the allure of the photographic image... the instant, when time and place seem to merge to catch a moment. It is the imperceptible connections I seek to define...when something catches your peripheral vision but is gone when you turn for a longer glimpse. My photographs aim to force the viewer to look beyond the obvious... to reveal the essence beyond the normal visual spectrum.”
May 2024
Gary Friedlander
“ I am a photographer, based out of the Midwest, where I focus on nature and wildlife photography.
Recently, I have been experimenting with “fine art” photography, adding textures to select landscape photographs.
Photography has become a passion in my second chapter, primarily due to the influence of my wife, who paints, and the National Geographic photographers I have had the privilege to meet on my travels.
With my nature and wildlife photography, I try to capture the intricate interconnectedness of our world, showcasing its beauty and diversity. “
Check out more of Gary’s work on IG here or at garyfriedlander.com
April 2024
J.P. Jackson
For many years I have been passionate about making photographic prints.
My love for handmade prints has led me to learn several alternative photographic printing processes. All of my images are gathered using analog cameras and photographic film. These photogravure (intaglio) prints are made using an etching press with etched copper plates that are hand inked/wiped and printed on fine papers.
I also make my own gravure tissue that is used in transferring the photographic image to the polished copperplate prior to etching.
My prints are often printed using the “chine-colle” technique - combining different Asian and European papers with various mixtures of etching inks.
These images are my responses to places, events and objects which resonate with me in a visual, cultural and individual way. Sharing these visual communications with other people is important to me. Going forward my plan is to continue working with analog film and making copperplate photogravure prints by hand. This way of working is slow, very challenging and can be rewarding.
See more of J.P.’s work
January 2024
Abhay BharadwaJ
Photography for me, essentially is sharing with my audience, view of the world through my eyes (as I look at it from behind a camera). In the realm of photography, I practice many different genres like landscape, street, architectural etc. But it is black and white photography that I find most fulfilling. In my exploration of black and white photography, I seek to transcend the boundaries of color, delving into the essence of emotion and storytelling. Through my camera stripped of hues, I navigate the nuanced interplay of light and shadow, creating a visual narrative that resonates with human experience.
My portfolio encapsulates a bold journey into graphic realism, where stark contrasts and intricate details converge. With each photograph I strive to create a moment in time that is meticulously composed to evoke thought and provoke emotion. By harnessing the power of monochrome, I amplify raw beauty found in the interplay of light and shadows.
Through the lens of black and white, I aim to capture moments that transcend the mundane to something that challenges norm. These graphic images, maybe intense sometimes, serve as a mirror reflecting the complexity of the human condition.
In a saturated world of color, my black and white images stand as testament of the enduring power of simplicity of form. It is an exploration of the profound, an invitation to see beyond the surface and celebration of timeless elegance found in absence of hues.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abhayb.art/
November 2023
Teresa Camozzi
Multimedia Photographer and California artist Teresa Camozzi, born in Rabat Morocco, immigrated to the United States when five years old. Her artwork evokes the complexity of Islam, while her immigration shades her political view, as does the desert she grew up near, Death Valley.
Linda Conner at the Art Institute of San Fransico has been a significant teacher to Teresa.
She is known internationally for large-scale permanent public artworks; she combines representational and abstract images via conventional art methods, (photography & drawing) and computer technology
One example is a seven-story installation near Shanghai, China; another is at Miami International Airport. She also earned the National 2009 Americans for theArts Award for public work in Plano, Texas.
Website: www.teresacamozzi.com
September 2023
Elliot Schildkrout
Museums have always called to me, beckoning across time and place, to see the world with new eyes. I find them a splendid refuge, that opens a conversation about the mystery and beauty of our multi-dimensional world.
I’ve often wondered what other viewers were seeing, surely something unique to them. Art doesn’t exist by itself. It is created in the interchange between the object, the viewer, and the particular space where they meet, at a particular moment, which is always changing. I decided to explore that conversation with my camera, to better understand what looking at art might be about. The photographs opened my awareness to new things, the light and feel of the particular space, the flow of the viewers, the interplay of color between the art and the room and the audience, all influencing what we see and experience. It was a dance for sure. Folks stop and move on and then turn back to catch another glimpse or share a thought with their neighbor. By photographing in slow motion, the images began to capture the fluidity between the art and the viewer on the dance floor of the museum.
The paintings and the viewer began to merge. Pain spills onto a woman’s dress, or a figure jumps from the canvas into the gallery. Art wants to dance with us. I might even suggest that the art only comes alive as it connects with its audience, each viewer creating something new, as they encounter each piece. The photographs capture that beckoning between the art and the viewer, each needing the other. And layered on it all, each museum with its different light, and different colors, creates a unique conversation. Of course, I am there as well, playing with it all, inviting you to join in this dance.
Website: https://www.elliotschildkroutphotography.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=19881&Akey=L6DFMQ9D&ajx=1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elliotschildkrout/?hl=en
August 2023
Marita Gootee
I grew up in a small town where an elementary school teacher told the class that we will constantly be in search of who we are. I doubt that she thought much of such a statement at the time, but it lodged in my mind permanently. My artwork is a constant search for self from my early crayon-colored rocks to today’s photographic work. My art is my way of attempting to understand myself and the world around me.
I was a printmaker in Undergrad. But for my BA major at the College of Mount St. Joseph, I had to select between taking a weaving class or a photography class. I decided on photography. I did not think I was organized enough to be a weaver. Photography came easily for me for I embraced the magic of the darkroom. As time passed, I craved more photography and attended graduate school at Indiana State University for an MFA.
I was fortunate to be hired by Mississippi State University in 1986 soon after graduating with my MFA. I have been there for the last 35+ years. I guided the photography program from totally analog to integrating digital courses. During the Pandemic I moved a traditionally alternative course to an online course. I have had my work exhibited in Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MS; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Czech China Contemporary Museum (CCCM), Songzhuang, China; and in May2023 in 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers., Worldwide Photography Gala Awards and Fotonostrum, Barcelona, Spain. I have attending Anderson Ranch Workshops and Maine Photographic Workshops. Recently, I received a Mississippi Arts Commission FY2024 Individual Fellowship Grant for further visual research.
As with curriculum, my artwork has changed and has grown over time. I strive to keep learning and improving who I am. ‘I experiment, fail and go from there.’ Said Denis Roussel. These are words that I totally relate too. I have explored many different techniques over my career, unlike many artists who use one technique and spend years refining their vision. My work does not have a single style, yet it all has a basic concept of memory, loss and self that bridges the different bodies of the visual research and unites them into one voice.
My journey will not end until I have moved to the next existence but for now – I will create.
Website: http://maritagooteephotography.com
July 2023
Thomas Winter
Thomas Winter grew up In Vallejo on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated in 1973, Architecture, California State University San Luis Obispo. He started working in Sacramento, California, and after a 40-year career in architecture, construction, and historic building restoration, he retired and lives in a historic mid-century modern house he has restored in Ashland, Oregon.
I grew up with photography as an ever-present part of family life. My grandparents started photographing with a Kodak Brownie #1 at the very beginning of consumer photography. The family archive of photographic materials contains a history lesson in film and cameras. I got my first camera in college and obsessively carried it with me.
In the early 1970s I studied architecture and photography at the Danish Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen; that increased my technical knowledge of cameras and film and give me a foundation of photography as an art form. I have created photographs in various film and digital formats for over 50 years and recently I curated and scanned much of my film archive.
I am pleased to find enthusiasm for my photography, appreciate the ability to digitally interact with photographers and have been selected for numerous juried exhibitions.
Website: thomaswinterphoto.com
June 2023
Antonio Colón-Román
“I am a Puerto Rican photographer living in South Carolina. My interest in photography runs between documentary photography, street photography and street portraits. All this with a strong anthropological and social base. I seek in it to show and reflect on issues that affect the human being in their environment.
For me, photography is a universal language. Those of us who intend to dialogue through it do not need to speak Spanish, English or German. The dialogue of the images brings us closer to a world where colors, geometric shapes and historical memory become linguistic elements that express the ideas of the photographer and the photographed person. That is why for me, photography is necessarily a link and closeness with people.
I believe that images are powerful and that with them you can change and improve the world. In my life, photography is complemented by formal work as a missionary pastor among ethnic minorities and places with high political, social and economic conflict.”
Instagram: @antonio_colon_roman
MAY 2023
Rachel Brewer
"I’m a portrait photographer living in central Georgia, primarily documenting my family and travels through film. My goal is to capture images that allow you to see the beauty, challenges and wonder that are childhood and growing up.
First seeing my father and grandfather always photograph our family sparked my interest in photography, and to this day I continue to use the same film camera my Mom passed down to me.
While it may seem antiquated, the process of film photography with its slower pace and surprise of end result are why I love it. This causes me to be more present with my subject and thoughtful with my approach."
Instagram: @rachelannebrewer
March 2023
Rebekah Alviani
Rebekah Alviani is a published, award-winning, and internationally exhibited lens-based artist. She holds an AST in Photography, a BFA in Graphic Design plus minors in Art History and Marketing, and an MFA in Digital Arts. Rebekah served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, West Africa, as an art teacher in a school for the Deaf. Rebekah’s service advanced her love of teaching, and she now works as a professional artist-educator teaching digital media, photography, and video.
The photographs presented here are the first from Transience: An Exploration of Objecthood and Object Memory.
Yellow Dog Village has a unique and unfortunate history: total abandonment in 2010. Community members were given 48 hours to vacate the town. Some collected all their belongings while others left multiple items including clothing, children’s toys, even family photographs. Because of how meaningful objects are in my life, I could not fathom abandoning personal items for outsiders to come and scrutinize.
So, I became the outsider traveling over 2,300 miles visiting Yellow Dog four times in six months. The photographic work produced within the village goes through an immense transformation. Much of the destruction of the village has occurred naturally due to moisture in the air. When this process is applied to photographic prints on paper that have been wheat-pasted, it creates unique cracks, discoloration, and other visual events that lead the images to serve as more than just items of documentation.
Through documenting this community’s objects, I hope to share the emotional and sensory experience I have had with the village, because doing so may foster reconnections with object memory.
FEBRUARY 2023
William Earle
William Earle is a photographer and educator living in Southeastern Pennsylvania, USA. Bill has shared his knowledge and experience teaching workshops and hosting photography related events. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States.
Born in an era prior to the current technology and information sharing society we live in; my first memory of a camera was one my father owned. It was a Canon 35mm gizmo that he used while serving in the Army in Korea. I clearly remember looking at it and being fascinated with slides he had taken while overseas. While non-functional today I still have it. Next it was a Kodak instamatic, and the only rule was, “don’t shoot into the sun”. A rule that I purposely break today. In middle school I remember sealing myself off in a dusty dirty closet attempting to contact print some black and white negatives. The success or failure I don’t remember. What I do remember is the smell of the chemistry, how much I loved it and the fact that a print was produced. The cameras and gear were particularly attractive to me. I dreamed of owning a Nikon and a Hasselblad. It took a while, but I finally realized both dreams. Today I own both a Nikon and a Hasselblad but am no longer absorbed by the gear. I have come to realize that it’s the photographer who makes the picture, not the gear and gizmos. The camera is simply a tool, an extension of the photographer.
The photographs presented here are the first from an ongoing project titled “Different Lenses”. We all see things through "Different Lenses" at different times in our lives and all of us see things differently. Spending a bit of time with these images will allow you to explore not only what you see but how you see. Gaining a deeper understanding of how we see things can foster personal growth. I believe there's value in personal development and growth, diving deeper into who we are, and learning more about ourselves. These photographs and this project are helping me on my journey. I sincerely hope that you too find some value in them.
I have my own titles for these photographs; however, I'll not share them here as I feel it more appropriate for you to arrive at your own thoughts and feelings on each image without external influence.
Website: www.wfephotography.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wfephotography/
JANUARY 2023
Mary Presson Roberts
Mary Presson Roberts is a photographer, author, and educator living in the Carolinas. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, and her Master’s Degree from the Citadel, Charleston, SC. Mary has been an educator in the Carolinas for more than three decades.
Mary was able to purchase her first serious camera using a gold coin her father gave her. She was immersed in art education throughout her life by her mother. The camera became Mary’s primary tool for self-expression.
Eight years ago, Mary combined her passions for photography and education. She teaches photography workshops, leads photo tours, and gives inspirational presentations about her photographic journey. Mary has a diverse interest in photographic subjects.
Mary has exhibited works in the United States and Internationally. She has been published in Our Magnificent Planet by Lenswork, Nature’s Best Photography International Awards,
and FotoNostrum Magazine.
Photography has introduced Mary to people she would have never met, taken her to places she would have never experienced, and adventures she never would have attempted. It transformed her life.
During the time of the pandemic, Mary began to feel truly caged. She started her project, Caged, in order to travel a short distance to enjoy the freedom of the drive while photographing interesting subjects. She chose a nearby zoo as her destination. She challenged herself to create images there, unlike photographs she created in the past.
Website: www.themaryphotographer.com
December 2022
Ken Trevor
I’ve been fascinated by photography since boyhood. A time often spent creating images with a variety of film cameras.
Later, while at college, I considered a career in photography. However, it was another passion – literature – that led me into the advertising industry as a writer and then creative director. Those years were an opportunity to hire many wonderful photographers on award-winning campaigns.
In 2007-08, I took a sabbatical, enrolling as a mature student in a one-year photography diploma course at the London College of Communication. It was like something brought me back to photography. I’m happy for that.
I’m drawn to a variety of subjects, including landscapes, people and more recently horses. And naturally enjoy capturing wide open spaces, where the light and framing are key considerations.
Website: www.ken-trevor.squarespace.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ken.t.camera/
October 2022
Beamie Young
My inspiration to capture and present an image is not limited in any way to specific subjects. I am interested in the entire visual world and want to share that diverse array so that you may enjoy the excitement that I feel when I see something in an interesting light.
Through the use of double exposure and compositing in photoshop I strive to create images that imply various narratives, many involving time. Spacetime is one of the great mysteries of existence and is one of my favorite themes. Some of these images are from my 4th dimension series.
https://beamie.smugmug.com/Series/Time/
September 2022
Peggy Baker
Like many, I started making photos in high school, and continued till someone stole my camera. When I came to Asheville 35 years later it seemed like a good time to start again. The computer is my (hopefully less toxic) darkroom now. I’m trying to capture images that allow insight into relationships, emotions, a way of observing and participating in the world.
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August 2022
Jan Bell
Ansel Adams once said "I hope that my work will encourage self-expression and others and stimulate the search for beauty and create an excitement in the world around us. "
These words have had a lasting impact on me. Adams’ photographs introduced me to a landscape that I only dreamed of seeing as a young child. They heightened my curiosity to explore the American West. My photographic journey has taken me to these landscapes and many others and allowed me to immerse myself in the beauty found throughout North America.
Growing up on a farm in the flatlands of northwestern Ohio instilled an appreciation for the land. This innate passion has continued into Bell’s adult life and translates as the work you see today. His early years were filled with exploration and that desire has followed him throughout his life. His pursuit of landscape images has taken him all over North America, typically photographing for weeks or even months at a time. It is this solo time in the wilderness that allows him to connect with the land and create his personal interpretation of the landscape.
Whether it be a plant, a landscape, or a manmade structure, Bell’s photos represent an opportunity to consider the subject – almost apart from its meaning or function – in terms of the beauty of its form. Whether that be the inner folds of a plant, a sand-swept dune, or a distant coastline, he focuses on an intimate view, narrowing the scope and allowing his audience to see only chosen elements of the whole.
His work has been exhibited in a multitude of galleries throughout the U.S. He has been published in various fine art photography magazines and written numerous articles for them. He has garnered numerous awards, with the Ansel Adams award topping the list for his 'Agave” photo. His latest accomplishment is the completion of a hardcover book titled “Quiet Contemplation.”
www.bellimages.com
July 2022
Inge Vautrin
Inge is originally from Viborg, Denmark and now lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is an enthusiastic traveler who thoroughly enjoys visiting new places and meeting new people. Always with camera in hand, she hopes to capture that special moment that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Her work spans many genres of photography: street, nature, macro, fine art, and photojournalism. Using light, shadow, texture, shapes and contrast, her aim is to guide the viewer’s focus and set the mood. She hopes to bring out the same emotion she felt when she took the picture.
“I enjoy the entire process; from finding the subject, to processing the picture, and sharing the results.”
Website:
https://ingevautrinphotography.com
Instagram:
June 2022
Linda Hosek
No matter where I am, I like to scan the horizon for relationships. I like to photograph the way a person interacts with another through expressions or body language. I want to show something personal, but suggest something universal; I hope to evoke emotion and thought.
I also look for intimate moments in public spaces. A child in a crowd leans quietly against her mother, who stares into the distance; walkers weave by each other in a foggy park, but pursue separate paths.
If I'm lucky, I find visual metaphors. A silhouetted man crossing under a giant rock at a museum installation can suggest courage or the will to persist against enormous odds.
Now that I live in South Carolina, I look for relationships in nature: trees tickling the sky, clouds covering canyons or water smoothing rocks. It is a universe where things monumental and tiny fascinate, where light and shadow shape a landscape.
But I still feel most grounded with where I started: the humanist tradition of photography. For me, that is capturing the ambiguities, gestures, ironies, curiosities and humor of human behavior in everyday life.
Linda Hosek, https://www.lindahosek.com/index
Greenville, South Carolina
May 2022
Daniel Iyari
“If the role of documentary photography has been to represent what we see as real, I believe the role of artistic photography is to invite us to rethink reality.”
Daniel states that he “ deviates from traditional landscape photography because my subjects and processes are not straightforward documentations. I treat my subject as a blank canvas, at night, using light as my brush to “paint” over the various surfaces. This process reveals something deeper than what is physically visible allowing me to tell different stories; some of them are about life, some about death and others about dreams.
I refer to this series of photos as “Night Visions”: they are glimpses into a mysterious land where color, light and nature allude to a dreamlike afterlife. My photographers portray a different perspective of what’s behind the veil of life. Instead of an afterlife that highlights heaven and hell, “Night Visions” speak to an eternal dream where our soul is set free to create and reshape its own realities. “
https://danieliyari.com
April 2022
Zach Suggs
Zach Suggs is a documentary photographer based in Greenville, South Carolina. Growing up with a heart that roamed elsewhere, rambling trips with friends became earnest searches for a place out west to call home. Each time he left he found himself tethered back to Appalachia, coming to see his roots with new eyes over time and discovering a rich creative community there. With a curiosity for both the natural and manmade world and those who traverse it, he uses the camera as a tool to explore how people move through their environments.
“My job is to celebrate and advocate for the lost/forgotten/dismissed/unknown/undiscovered subcultures and groups of people
and both the natural and manmade spaces they inhabit/utilize/traverse;
because it's my duty to unite and build up,
to protect and preserve creation,
and to sew a thread through the things common in all humanity.”
https://zachsuggs.com
March 2022
Rebekah Mininger
Rebekah Mininger creates photography with the conviction that there is far more to our existence than what we see on the surface. Through her constructed and abstract processes, she illustrates the arena of the mind expressing our desire to reach for truth and meaning. She uses concept through symbolism and metaphor and often plays with themes of pain, insecurity, and endurance. Though she is classically trained in traditional film and commercial photography practices, Rebekah chooses to now specialize in fine art and creative portraiture. Rebekah Mininger is a member and regular contributor with Arcangel, a global creative stock photography and illustration agency. She has taught photography full-time on the college level for 17 years and loves helping students make their own photographic discoveries.
February 2022
Wendi Schneider
Wendi Schneider combines photography and precious metals to create luminous impressions of vanishing beauty in the natural world.
In ‘Into the Mist’ I offer glimpses of respite amidst the vague unknowing of 2020. I ventured to the mountains of North Carolina to find reprieve in shinrin-yoku as the Japanese call forest bathing – seeking serenity and balance.
A quiet pilgrimage among the trees revealed the beloved fog that comforted me as a child growing up in the South. Embraced in a vapor evocative of the melancholy light of dusk, it was as though the clouds sighed an amorphous veil over the lush woods. I felt outside of time as we drove along the winding road, photographing through the windows and myriad layers of love and loss.
Cloistered in my studio upon my return to Denver, I was transfixed in transforming these fragments of time. Informed by my background in painting and art history, the images were layered digitally with a limited palette of color and texture, delicately enhancing the muted verdant views.
The images were printed with archival pigment inks on Japanese kozo paper. White gold leaf was then applied on the verso. The filtered, dappled light that glimmered through the branches is echoed in the shimmer of the gilded prints. With this meditative process, I explore what I feel as much as see. I follow intuitively where each image takes me, honoring the variations within the edition to elevate the ephemeral. Senses enveloped, I am immersed in a state of grace.
wendischneider.com instagram @wendischneiderart
January 2022
Laura Hannusch
I am a real estate attorney in Houston, but my passion is photography. I enjoy travel, landscape and nature/wildlife photography. I relish going to new places and learning more about the people and animals I encounter. My travels have given me a deep appreciation of the beauty that exists in the broader world and closer to home. It also has opened my eyes to issues we face here and around the world and the impact my actions or inactions have.
My hope is that my photography creates a connection between the viewers and the places, people or animals in my photographs and that the connection leads, at a minimum, to an appreciation for them or, even better, a call to do something to help.
December 2021
Deb Dawson
Deb Dawson developed her narrative voice at SALT Institute of Documentary Studies. Through contemplative observation, she photographs the working lives and lands of maritime communities.
She was introduced to Maine 30 years ago while honing her photographic eye at Maine Media Workshops + College before completing her BFA in Photography at the University of Southern Maine. Later, Deb embarked on a series of adventures including earning her merchant mariner captain’s license, working as an archaeological and museum photographer in Carthage, Tunisia, and a decades-long career in graphic design. These varied experiences helped shape and provide meaning to her current work documenting the changing landscape of Maine.
NOVEMBER 2021
Jose G. Barriga
In 2013, Jose G Barriga retired from the US Army after 22 years of continuous service. As a disabled veteran, he uses photography to retain the feeling of hope and being alive again.
Jose acknowledges that shooting a camera is almost identical to shooting a rifle or a pistol because all of them need a steady position, proper aim, breath control, and a trigger squeeze/shutter release. When he is out in the streets, he is physically and psychologically present in his own predetermined shooting environment. Jose is not remembering the past or thinking ahead for the future. His dynamic hyper-awareness enriches the appreciation of the surroundings.
October 2021
Melanie Tinnelly
Flowers have always held a special place in my heart and though I shoot other things I always go back to what gives me serenity.
When I moved to Greenville, SC, I timidly joined the Southeast Center for Photography at the gentle nudging of my printer who is a member. I felt the photographers there were at such a higher level than I am and I didn't know if I would be welcomed. They turned out to be kind and shared their knowledge and are so very interesting to talk to (not a snob in the bunch). When we had to turn to zoom meetings during the height of the pandemic I was even more charmed as other members across the world showed us what they were photographing. Just what you need to see when you're stuck in the house for an indeterminable amount of time. If photography is your passion I hope you join too. It's a great place to be and to learn.
September 2021
Anna Gallant Carter
When I don’t have a camera in hand, I often still see my environment through a lens, one that brings into focus the need to slow down and see the world as if it were looking back at me. This interaction has allowed me to more deeply appreciate the people, fauna, and flora that surround me.
One photographic process that I particularly enjoy involves taking digital photographs, creating full-size negatives, painting platinum/palladium chemistry on Hahnemühle platinum rag, exposing it in the lightbox I designed and built in my woodshop, and processing the print in the hand-made stainless-steel sink that was used in a portrait studio in my grandfather’s store in the mid 1900s.
When I share a photograph with you, I want to know what you feel and how it might be similar or different to what I felt when taking and developing it. I am attracted to beauty, especially in nature, but I also gravitate to the fuller spectrum of emotions that I experience and then capture with my camera.
Anna’s website is www.gallantlens.com..
August 2021
Amy Wappler
Amy Wappler is a fine art photographer who works primarily with botanicals. She is an avid gardener and grows many of her subjects from seed in her backyard and finds others along the coast of Maine where she lives in Rockland. She works with digital pigment prints as well as alternative and historical printing processes such as albumen, salted paper, cyanotype and platinum.
July 2021
Lori Foringer
Lori Foringer is a fine art photographer who explores the intricacies of life. She encourages the viewers to explore themselves, their identities, and their role in the world, while slowing down to observe the little things in life. Lori captures the little details of life that are often overlooked as we pass thru our lives at a frantic pace.
Growing up with National Geographic, photography was a first love of Lori’s. Given a Nikon F and a 50mm lens in her teenage years, she took every opportunity to create. Throughout her career in the Air Force, Lori continued to photograph, constantly having a point and shoot with her, whether deployed or otherwise. When she picked up her first DLSR in 2008, the love was truly rekindled. Upon retirement, she decided to pursue the passion and dream to become an artist and, in 2021 earned an MFA from Academy of Art University. In addition to her love of photography, Lori is a private pilot and holds an FAA Part 107 drone certification.
Lori can be reached at: Lori@5ByPhotography.com. Her website is https://www.5byphotography.com/
Susan Bryant
June 2021
Susan retired from Austin Peay State University where she taught photography for 38 years. Her current work includes the wet plate collodion process and various ways of integrating the collodion process with digital technology. In addition, she has recently returned to her love of hand applying color to black & white photographs by hand-coloring digital prints made from scans of tintypes and glass negatives.
“For the past forty years I have been pivoting from hands to skies, from interiors to landscapes, from pictures of objects to pictures of people. The common thread running through these braided interests is the way that light in its countless variations invites me to pay attention.”
My website is under reconstruction, but work from 2015 and earlier can be found at:
susanbryantphoto.com More recent work is found at IG: susanbryantphoto
May 2021
Bootsy Holler
Without Words is a visceral and subconscious way back to the self through nature. Unable to articulate my personal struggle with depression these images bring visibility to my feelings of vulnerability, fear, and isolation. These are moments manifested from my psyche, disembodied from my day to day existence. Visit bootsyholler.com to see more of her work.
April 2021
Lindsay McGrath
Lindsay worked as a journalist and then an interfaith hospital chaplain before retiring to devote herself to photography. She is convinced reporting and ministry helped her develop the strong powers of observation that inform her work today. Her interests include travel and nature photography. “Taking pictures is a meditative process. I work hard to create images that capture a state of wonder.” You can see more of Lindsay’s work on her website: www.lindsaymcgrathphotography.com
March 2021
John Nelson
John Nelson retired from laboratory research and scientific journal editing to devote his time to making photographic art. He started The Actinic Studio in Frederick, MD, where he and others can bring their imaginations to life.
John’s work travels between 35mm, 120mm, and large format, with occasional side trips to toy cameras. In addition to creating fine art, he makes tintype portraits, undertaking the wet plate collodion process with vintage brass lenses, each of which has its own particular signature. Soon John hopes to start creating glass negatives suitable for other alternative processes. Visit his website (theactinicstudio.com) to see more images of his wet plate photography.
February 2021
Sam Wang
Sam retired from Clemson University where he taught photography for 40 years. His current work includes "alternative processes" such as cyanotype, platinum, gum, and especially a combination of cyanotype with palladium.
Some of his prints can be seen at www.samwang.us.
