Exhibition in Kamloops!

Hello all,

my apologies for the long gap in-between posts. Had my hands 'ueber' full the past week and a bit. Joe McNally was in town teaching several workshops, and a few days ago, Freeman Patterson and Eddie Soloway also landed in Vancouver. It's amazing to have 3 such masters here at the same time, having the privilege and true honour to spend time with each one. Today I had breakfast with Joe followed by dinner with Eddie and Freeman. Have to pinch myself frequently these days...But more about all of this in an upcoming blog post.

I wanted to post a review of the Opening of my exhibition in Kamloops, B.C. I drove up from Vancouver for the evening, got lucky with the weather at least on the first stretch.

The good folks at the ARNICA did an amazing job - my images looked great on their walls, and the place was busy the entire evening. To top it off, I got invited for a late-night dinner and a glas of wine afterwards.

The gallery showed two bodies of work, my long exposure landscape work as well as my 'Tattoo Project' Portrait Series.

The gallery is located in an old heritage building, which used to be the courthouse in Kamloops. The exhibition space features a 'vault' which used the be the place where the original town records were kept. This was a perfect place for my "Tattoo Project' images, while my long exposures were hang in the larger space at the entrance to the gallery.

Being a small exhibition space, I only had room for 12 long exposure prints. The 'vault' showed about 25 of my 'Tattoo Project' Polaroids.

Every exhibition is an opportunity to show new work, and having travelled to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia recently I was eager to show off this new work. The images on display where a mix of square and panoramic images, with the largest being a 4 foot x 4 foot print mounted on aluminum. With the exception of that very large piece, all the remaining works were printed at my studio on an Epson 7900 printer, using Epson Cold Press Bright paper. I am constantly surprised how great the image quality of today's printers truly is. At this point in time, I think my 7900 can deliver on par, if not better, quality prints than any other professional lab out there.

As a photographer, I think it is a very satisfying process and opportunity to be able to make high quality prints of our own photography. If you haven't tried printing yourself, now it's the time to try it! 

I was given an article that ran in the local paper about my exhibition. It was nice to see how many young people and students are involved with this gallery. They volunteered to hang my pictures which were delivered about a week before the Opening.

On my way back the weather had turned. I was a bit worried my mini-van wouldn't make it, but driving slowly and carefully got me back to Vancouver safe and sound.

My sincere thanks to the staff and volunteers of the ARNICA Kamloops. Their hard work really made for a great evening, and a fantastic start to the new year 2012.

The exhibition is up until February 18. If you're closeby please consider visiting, and if you do please let me know what you think.