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Partners' Picks of the Show
Photo Challenge 2020
Gallery Partners have chosen their "Picks of the Show"
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Partners' Picks of Guest Photographers
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Number 7—The
Breuilh by Bruno Chalifour
One current
trend in photography is to reflect on how the Covid pandemic has
impacted not only lives but our creativity. Bruno has captured
a wonderful series of photographs after being in quarantine in his
village in France and then focusing on what is outside his home in
this beautiful part of France. This photograph captures a local
creek where he used to play as a child. A magical place.
Number 7,
the Breuilh, is a wonderful photo all about light. The light on
the water and the light on the overhead branches and those at the
left of the image seem to talk together and make a circle which
includes the light in the distance. The eyes are led around
the circle, and the perspective takes us along the stream toward the
bright light in the distance. It's like an attractor, almost making
the viewer feel like a moth…being drawn to the light.
As a counter
point to all of the light, the center of the photograph is a dark
area, lending mystery to the image. We are always wanting to
peer into the shadows and know what is there…. Bruno has allowed us
to see the detail of the foliage in the shadows but we still wonder
what lurks just beyond them.
The light, the
shimmering water and the hallway of dark made of trees opens a door
for us to "be there." A photograph that one can spend time enjoying
and reflecting on what it says to us.
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Once Grand by Laura Knecht
Laura has achieved her desired goal to express what she envisions in
her mind while she is creating her photographs.
While the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane is not an
“ordinary” space, Laura has managed to make us look at her
collection of photographs more than once! Our favorite is Once
Grand. Can you imagine how truly grand this might have been, under
the circumstances, of course?
The yellow tones are just beautiful… and calming which I assume was
the purpose. The red and white squares on the ceiling connect to the
red doors at the end of the hallway. There are several other little
elements that keep you interested in this photo; the ripped screen
door on the right; the wheelchair jutting out on the left as if
someone is still sitting in it; the echoed arches that lead down the
hall. This is a well composed
image with the hallway slightly off the center line and it includes
many photographic elements we all enjoy; texture, symmetry,
patterns; leading lines; and really interesting light. This is just
a wonderful photograph. Congratulations Laura. |
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Rough
by Julie Oldfield
Julie is exhibiting an
eclectic collection of her favorite photos taken over the past year.
She focuses on projects involving forgotten neighborhoods, urban
decay and on the human struggles facing many of the less fortunate
of our community. Her exhibit concentrates primarily on aspects of
decay including a wooden chair in a neglected field with the Kodak
tower in the background or a long unused dock at a long ago closed
high-end eatery. But the focus of this review is Rough, her photo of
an intriguing street scene. In the foreground is an upside-down
manhole cover stamped with ‘City of Rochester’ and a cross-hatched
design of squares and rectangles that is repeated throughout the
photograph. Even though this is place dead center, the effect is to
create a triangle with the corners of the building in the
background. The middle ground is a deserted urban street separating
the viewer and photographer from the vacant building, with solid
horizontal stretches of different shades of gray. The only color to
note is the subdued abandoned building in the color of a dulled and
aged Medina sandstone which is used for much of the curbing in the
older sections of the city. The fading brick and simple rectangular
windows and door speak of a building, perhaps of industry or
manufacturing of at least 100 years of age. There are also other
interesting light gray markings that could be from a window through
which Julia is viewing this scene. As with most of her photos, Julie
uses subdued lighting to enhance the feeling that this area has long
passed it glory days and is waiting for demolition or an
entrepreneur. Julie leaves us with many questions: Where is this?
What would this have looked like as a thriving well populated area?
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Atlantic Sunrise
John Retallack
John has
provided a beautiful set of photographs that include reflective and
beautiful prose-poetry. The words, by themselves, could
be sufficient to move the reader, but the images call our attention
immediately. The combination provides an offering that is more
than either individually.
On that is
particularly striking is Atlantic Sunrise The words below even
provide a description of the image itself – the “amazing shades of
blue” and the calm straight line of the horizon. The presence of
the person standing on the beach will surely grab our attention, and
we can join with the figure and look, too, out across the Atlantic.
The sky’s after-sunrise light creates both silhouette and shadow of
the person and present colors complementary to the array of blues.
The wet beach and calm waters join in with reflections that hold our
attention near the center of the image and then to the horizon. We,
too, might place our own thoughts there “on the horizon calm” and
try “to keep this vision” for ourselves. |
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