Through A Window

by Cheryl A Townsend

"In my photography, I seek overlooked angles and textured forms, vibrant displays of discarded beauty and grains.  Looking for the tree in the forest, I focus further on the patterns in the bark.  My vision is everyday objects abstracted via detailed selection.  I seek blatant colors juxtaposed with decay to project the beauty in its passing.  I always shoot with a zoom lens, leaving the picture to find me, rather than I to find the picture.  I hope to prove that art can be found anywhere if one would just take a moment to look.

In the series '"THROUGH A WINDOW", all photographs were taken with a Canon AE-1 and Tamron zoom. Film is straight Kodak. There is a small town in West Virginia called Thomas where most of the buildings on the main strip are vacant but for the left overs that continue to attract dust and my attention. "Cozy Cat" is in a newly occupied theater. "Cut Your Hair" was from a walk in Chicago to the Myopic for lunch via Milwaukee Avenue. "Still Life Through Window" was taken in Elkins, West Virginia during the Leaf Peepers Festival."

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Chicago by Kurt Nimmo

"I really don't think about much before I shoot Chicago. I simply go out with my camera and if something strikes my eye, I take a picture of it. Really, it's not a conscious thing beyond seeing the photo subject and clicking the exposure button. My Chicago have no meaning beyond what the person looking at it sees. I don't take pictures for meaning or symbolic representation. My thoughts rarely go beyond shape, line, and color." - Kurt Nimmo

"Much has been written about the beauty, the stillness, the terror of the desert but little about its flies." -- Belle Livingstone (Quote requested by the photographer to accompany his photographs)

 

"Africans Connecting" series from Jimmy James Greene depicts African-Americans using communications technology, including the telephone and the computer.  Greene is a Brooklyn artist, and owns Afro-Graphix, an Afro-centric graphics shop.

Personal Glimpses by Michael Prete

Michael is a photographer living in Westchester County, New York.

Puerto Rican Day Parade, New York City
by Michelle Hogan

Past Galleries