Black and White Photographs

Artists Describing Their Art:

Cheryl Dodds - In each of us there is an artist. We have only to allow the art freedom to exist.... I hold both a bachelors and masters degree from The Ohio State University and have also studied art at Ohio University. Currently, I teach art in a high school in Oregon. Previously, I taught art and multimedia in a distance education environment after 14 years in a traditional school. In 2006-2007 I lived in Chiayi, Taiwan and taught English for the Ministy of Education. Art instructors Dennis Adams and Pheoris West have influenced my direction in art. My wish is that you find personal meaning as you view my art....

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Beatrice Van Winden - Artist statement For the last twelve years, Beatrice Van Winden, has lived on Vancouver Island, and has always had an interest in photography and the Arts, for as far back as she can remember the arts. Beatrice studied art and photography throughout her school years, and has continued to do so, on the island: - Traditional photography with Mitch Stringer and Susan Mulgreine-Professional photographers & teachers at various local colleges of photography. - Darkroom processing, & B/W photography with Professional photographer Bradford Stevenson & teacher at the Victoria college of photography. - Digital darkroom with professional photographer Andrew Ciesielski. - She studied art with Wendy Welsh, John Drake, Xane St-Francis at the Vancouver College of art, Camosun . - She studied Art Marketing with Alice Cormier, a well-known Vancouver Art Marketing Consultant. Beatrice combined her knowledge of traditional photography and art to create unique photos. The website Arts of Canada has described her photos as "Photos with a digital edge". Her photos are often thought of as beautiful paintings. She is known for her ability to see and capture colors with her traditional camera in a unique way. She is a member of the: - She is a member of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art. -...

Joe Kerr - Born and raised on the Canadian prairie where the vision is one of a broad and neverending horizon often splashed with unbelievable sunsets. Photography is an artistic tool that helps me express myself. Thirty years of experimenting through a lens, then developing the results, have exposed me to many new ideas. In 1997 I embraced the digital age. Uniting photography and computer technology opened a new world of visions. I bring to you, through this web gallery, my new horizons of images. Most have been captured with Nikon equipment using a selection of lenses and a network of digital processing power. All my CSCS images are original digitally painted stories of light, texture, color, contrast and content. I hope you'll enjoy your visit. Joe Kerr...

Pamela Henry - I am a Photography Artist. My process crosses analog and digital borders. Initially my images are captured on film, slides or digitally. I use a range of techniques from cross-process development and polaroid manipulation to digital painting, collage and layering to create what you see here. If I were to condense my thoughts on photographic expression into a single phrase it would be "in the moment". The moment begins at first sight and is complete when I release the shutter, lift my stylo from the polaroid, or remove my hand from the mouse. I know I will relive that feeling each time I look at the image, like a song or a smell that transports you to another place and time. This photographic expression translates beyond verbal expression and rests in your being, invoking a subjective reaction based on your experiences. Herein lies a collection of such moments. ...

Debra Ann Reilly - At age 5 in kindergarten Debra loved painting so much she created a life size self-portrait wearing a bright orange smock, holding a huge palette in one hand a giant paintbrush in the other. During the mid-70s she attended painting lessons from a local artist with two other students in his Queens, NY gallery. Debra continued art studies in high school and in college. Debra created in pastel, digital, pencil, ink and acrylic paint. Debras work has been viewed coast-to-coast. Now Debra has a collection of mostly impressionist art coming soon, many were created during the covid shutdown. Some at other times. All are doen in oil paint and will be very exciting to see, somewhere in NYC area this year. ...

Dion Mcinnis - Anyone can take a photograph...push a button. The magic is in the seeing...seeing with all your senses. My work, no matter the subject, comes from seeing with all my senses and then creating to share with others. www.PoetVision.com...

Dragutin Barac - "The eyes are reflection of the soul" So and my art speaks about me. Sensitive and refined sense of observation created me as the artist with both, painting and photography skill.I started paint in watercolour technique. After I visited London and Amsterdam, where I spent three years, I slightly changed my view of life; started with another approach of art - PHOTOGRAPHY. Spending most of the time in different places, mainly by nature, I become fascinated with Mediterranean mysticism what is everywhere visible. I am a member of CROATIAN FREELANCE ARTISTS ASSOCIATION and CROATIAN FINE-ART ARTISTS ASSOCIATION. I have been working as freelance for a twenty years....

Hans Molnar Reitmeyer - Photography as an art form is the youngest of all disciplines. Photographic art is the most difficult medium to master for the simple fact that ones imagination is meaningless without real elements to express ones emotion and ideas. All other art mediums suffer no such restrictions. Yes images can be manipulated but essentially they must 1st exist in the real world to be manipulated. Hans Molnar/Reitmeyer is basically a self taught photographer. At the age of 11 yrs held his first camera and from that time on grew a fascination and love for photography. Hans finds the human body fascinating and sees it as a wonderful piece of art in itself. A part of his work can be described as purely his own aesthetical view point of the human body , another aspect of his work involves his own views and experiences of human sexuality and relationships and finally on women's issues of injustice. Do not expect to see the so-called perfect godly or goddess figures in his online galleries. Hans concentrates on his artwork photographing average every day people as he believes that as being representative of humanity and partly in protest against the general media and ...