I am starting a project to photograph people who live with chronic pain, give them a voice, and build awareness of the challenges and stigmatization that often impacts quality of life. I am initially looking for 10 participants on the Delmarva Peninsula. Each participant will be interviewed to capture their experiences, lessons learned and their recommendations. I will make images of participants in their environment, using their own words and imagery, and illustrate the complexity of living with pain
…Month: September 2019
I have stayed in contact with a few of my favorite professors at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 30 years ago (shhh … yes … it was that many years). One of them is Willie Osterman, who teaches his students more about life than about photography (although he certainly teaches that extremely well). Willie is the Director of the Fine Art Photography Program at RIT. In 2018, he led a one-day workshop at Center for Photographic Art in Carmel
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I was giving a talk about fine art photography awhile back and one of the attendees thanked me for submitting my Fall Maple Leaf image to the Ward Museum’s 2017 Art in Nature Photography Competition. To my great surprise, the picture took the grand champion award. The attendee explained that my image was very different from the other entries and by winning the award, I opened the door to more experimentation and artistic expression.
I thought about that discussion when
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