Dear Reader,I want to give you a special advance invitation to a unique upcoming event.
I'm excited to tell you about my annual open studio exhibition where I unveil and make available new work for the first time. This highly anticipated event happens for two days only - Saturday and Sunday, August 4th and 5th, from 9 am to 5 pm, in Cushing, Maine. Each day at 2 pm, I will speak about my new work and entertain questions from visitors.
This year's new work is drawn from materials produced on my most recent voyage to Antarctica in February 2007. (I returned for a second time with Michael Reichmann, Jeff Schewe, Seth Resnick, Stephen Johnson and new voyagers Bill Atkinson and Ian Lyons.)
Like my previous work, this new work is concerned with subjects fast becoming critical issues of our time - water resource managment and climate change.
The work is also concerned with the important issues of changing practices within the medium of photography and the arts in general due to evolving technology.
This event presents three exhibits in one; Antarctica - minimally-altered photographs produced on site, in Lightroom 1.0, most of which are suitable for journalistic use; Suffusion - highly-altered images produced from the same material at a later date in my studio, in Photoshop CS3; and Fumo - images shot in studio and later used to produce Suffusion, a body of work unto itself, produced in the beta version of Lightroom. This is the first time I've produced three very different but parallel bodies of work simultaneously in such a short time. This is a never before seen glimpse into my artistic process, which is clearly dynamic and evolving.
You can download the PDF press release, which describes this years event in more detail.
You'll also find my descriptions of the two voyages to Antarctica I have been on, as well as a collection of interesting facts about the region drawn from my research.
PDF portable galleries containing many images from both Antarctica voyages are currently available.
Directions to the event are posted online.
While there's nothing like seeing the work in person (and this event is unique because you get to meet the artist in the studio the work was produced in), you can still see most of the work online.
Before, during, and after the event, galleries of new work and other related materials will be posted online.
Tell a friend about this event. Or, better yet, bring one with you!
Best wishes,
John Paul
