For the past two months visitors to Image City Photography Gallery have been able to view some of the photos created by Visiting Artist Elisa Knataitis. This month, Elisa is exhibiting her 3rd series as a Visiting Artist. For her current display Elisa has selected some of her favorite images that she created over the years for competitions in Professional Photographers of America (PPA). She created these while she was working on her Master Photographer Degree from PPA.
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School of the Arts (SOTA) is one of the schools participating in Through the Student Lens 2023, the current exhibit at Image City Photography Gallery.
(more…)When Scott Matyjaszek was a young boy, he was always fascinated by science fiction and the possibilities of technology. Through Sci-Fi comic books, he was intrigued by the idea of a future world filled with flying cars, intergalactic or inter-dimensional travel and advanced technology like robots and time machines. Thus, it is not surprising that Scott’s love for technology and his background in art have led to his collaboration with artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation of his latest art, which he finds inspiring, exciting, and slightly other worldly. Scott’s love for technology has carried over into his art and his present use of AI as a new medium.
While discussing some of the photos on display in the Black and White Invitational at Image City Photography Gallery, one might ask “What makes an effective black and white photo?”
The 16th annual Magic of Light 2023 Show at Image City Photography Gallery features 76 photographers who were juried into the show. One of the award-winning photographers is David Ridley who started developing his interest in photography when he hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1977. At that time he was shooting Kodachrome 64 color slides with a Kodak Pony Rangefinder.
David’s photo entitled Dichotomy Series #4 received the Lumiere Photo Award provided by Lumiere Photo (https://www.lumierephoto.com). This photo is part of a series of photos that David photographed several years ago at one of his past workplaces. David says, “I was amazed at the interesting and unique shapes, form, line and texture that I found.” The title is a play on the contrast between the substance and the genre of the photo.
(more…)The second annual Red Show will be coming back to Image City during the month of February. Participating photographers select one photo that shows their own interpretation of the Red theme. We hope that you consider participating in this show!
What do we know about the color red? We know that it attracts attention and elicits strong emotions such as love or anger; it is the color of drama and passion. It is stimulating, vibrant and exciting. Red inspires desire. The Partners at Image City are excited about seeing your visions in red.
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Recently when a guest was visiting the Holiday Show at Image City Photography Gallery, we became immersed in a conversation about the titles of some of the displayed photos. She mentioned that after reading the title of Steve Levinson’s photo series, Dancing Flames, as she stared at the images, she could actually start to see dancers within the flames. After our discussion, I began to wonder just how important is a title for our photos?
As I thought about it, I realized that deciding on a title is often a challenging task for a photographer. How might you create a title that is appealing, intriguing and relates to the art itself?
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Walter Jakubowski’s intriguing photography exhibit which includes many abstract images from his ongoing series entitled “A Stranger in a Strange Land,” is on display at Image City Photography Gallery during the Holiday Show from November 29-December 23, 2022.
Though Walter mainly considers himself a landscape photographer, his interest in photographers such as Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas, David Muench and illustrator Maxfield Parrish inspired his photography. Porter and Muench’s work awakened him to the more intimate vs. grand landscape tradition. Over time his compositions started to lean more into the abstract.
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Recently a visitor at Image City Photography Gallery and I had a conversation about the photos created by guest artists Michael Tomb and Marcia Zach. After viewing their images, the visitor came out of the Neuberger Gallery and said that the photos had “touched her heart and brought tears to her eyes.” We discussed how some photos seem to have a WOW factor.
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Anyone who loves gardening or photography are in for a fabulous treat during November, when visiting the Neuberger Gallery, located within Image City Photography Gallery. Messages from the Urban Garden is a collection of photos created by Michael Tomb and Marcia Zach of https://studiomichaelino.com Intimate details of flowers and vegetables have been lovingly and creatively captured by Michael and Marcia throughout their exhibit.
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