Black and White Photographs

Artists Describing Their Art:

John Canning - The artwork of John Canning is a vehicle for a wide ranging regional tour; and as it discovers and reveals an eclectic array of architectual styles,vegetation, figurative and color combinations, it delivers diversity. Through intense observation and deft rendering of natural lighting and atmospherics, John moves beyond mere structure and arrives at a true sense of place... The original works of John Canning are paintings & drawings created with watercolors, color/graphite pencils, pastels, charcoals, India inks and sepia embellished photographic transfers Created on bright white cold pressed fine textured art board or bright white 300-lb,100% cotton cold pressed archival watercolor paper Collectors may purchase existing originals, or have a commissioned piece created Limited edition hand-embellished, signed and numbered prints are available on bright white, 100% cotton, 300 weight textured archival papers,or on white surfaced medium-textured canvas All Fine Art Reproductions are personally printed, & hand-pulled by the artist. Posters published by Winn Devon Art Group. ...

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...

Laura Imhoff - My name is Laura Imhoff and I am the owner and photographer of Perception Studio. I graduated magna cum laude from the Myers School of Art, University of Akron in 2006 with a BFA in photography, and minors in painting, art history, and professional photography. While in school, my goal was to practice as many disciplines and approaches to art as possible so that I could gain a true understanding of what it meant to be an artist. But what did that require? It meant, "eat, breathe, and sleep" art. So, that is exactly what I did. While my classes offered technical advice for each discipline I tried, I learned the most from the artists of past decades and my colleagues. Sharing my life and art with them, and vice versa, showed me a world of possibilities and gave me a real appreciation for art in all its forms (and people, too). I decided that art school really wasn't about learning how to BE an artist, but instead about how to defend why YOU are an artist. Being an artist isn't about being techinically the best, which is what I had always strived for...its about the ideas ...

Toni Markette - Each moment we live is a gift and there are moments that I capture with my lens that I can savor and share - that's how I view my photography - whether it is strait shooting or images I dreamed up from reality into fantasy - it is a sharing of hearts and minds. Sometimes I translate what my heart sees through brushes onto canvas and then I share color - color that grabs you by the eyeballs and swings you around. I believe that being happy is a choice, I choose to be happy every day and it my inner happiness that I express on my canvases....

Thomas Gulla - Tomasz Gulla is a lawyer and photographer from Poland. In my 7-year career I had exhibitions in Hamburg, Vienna, Gdansk, Gdynia and Lodz. In addition, I have publications in international journals and books. Photography is my great passion, a springboard from dullness of everyday life, the field where I look for a different view of reality. I try to create something new as well as go beyond the patterns. I am interested in seeking abandoned places (palaces, factories, churches) in order to make them vivid in my photographs and go back in time. I will soon broaden my artistic field of interest by metalwork. ...

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...

Michael Easton - My nature photography reflects a personal vision of the spirituality of the land. Photographing nature primarily in British Columbia is a way of life that translates the passion for this land into a shared experience of imagery through the medium of the fine print. The challenge when finding an image in nature that is of particularly interest is to pare down the extraneous bits to the essential elements that is the essence of the emotional/spiritual experience. The textural and design elements of the image are the key to the mind's appreciation of the congruency of nature within an apparent chaotic framework. Black and white aids the mind in this process without the distraction of other colours. My motivation in showing this work is to help people develop a stronger bond with nature and by extension a greater interest and concern for preserving the many unique ecosystems of the world....

Laurent Ziegler - My work is about capturing moments that move and shift boundaries, a search for corners and spaces inside the process of work. The connecting point in my ambitions and dreams, not just as a photographer but foremost as a human being, is the desire to communicate stories, discover tales that seem hidden from the spectator and yet remain open to the inquisitive eye. Looking back, my life has taken some different directions and occasionally it felt random and without orientation. However, working for political parties and finishing my studies, doing editorial work, later photography and contemporary dance, I kept searching for a similar content, for a bigger picture that holds memory and allows to grasp what seems true and valid throughout time. The word unstill crossed my mind when I enrolled in dance photography in 1998. A new world opened up and I thought about the nature of stills, the ability to sense change and the in balance of time, the latter captured like a freeze in a singe moment. the word holds a different connotation in German. Still stands for silence and unstill implies the absence of it. I am currently collaborating with contemporary artists in Vienna, Milan and ...