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Capturing the world before her though a camera lens since childhood, Geraldine Pontius prefers street photography to any other genre. Here, in the Paris garden, she saw, across two brows at the same instant, in perfect harmony, the portrait of a thought. Her work can be found at www.geraldinepontius.com.

She now lives in Baltimore, MD and shoots film street photography as often as she can.

I shot this view looking south from about Canal Street at Mile Marker 457 on the elevated west side highway, in about 1975. What caught my eye was the sand blowing on what would become the site of Battery Park City, in the distance there’s the Statue of Liberty, and the lower right corner one lone figure in the foreground at the water’s edge. At the same time, the image is both serene and surreal. The clouds reflected in the Twin Towers with the single point perspective made this image into a more emotional work than an average cityscape would be for me. The framed image is about 8” x 10”

“Marty”, a resident of the Miller Beach section of Gary, IN, loves the beauty of the local environment. In all seasons of the year, one sees Marty with her camera hiking in the Indiana dunes.  She aims to capture the uniqueness of the interplay of light with wildlife and landscape.  She has exhibited her photography locally and nationally in Lubbock TX, Chicago, IL, Evanston IL and Santa Fe, NM. and has received numerous awards for her photos.   She is self-taught, having begun photography at the age of 10. She is a founding member of the Miller Beach Arts and Creative District. Marty is Professor Emerita of Northwestern University. Before retiring, she was Director of the Neurobiology Program at Lurie Children’s Memorial Research Center and managed a research program focused on developing new gene therapies for Parkinson’s disease. She now spends most of her time on photography, gardening and traveling. She has enjoyed photography in over 80 countries and all 7 continents.

Through photography I am trying to uncover the inner truths of others and myself. Sounds pretentious but the more I work the more I realize that is my search.
I am most attracted to street photography and environmental portraiture as that often depicts people without as many masks.
My goal is for the photographs to both reverberate with the viewer and still be somewhat mysterious.

Robert McCurley was born and raised in the South and spent most of his life earning a living in corporate America. He supplemented his income with wedding and portrait photography. Today, he is focused solely on personal artistic endeavors. His photographic education includes classes at the former Southeastern Center for the Photographic Arts in Atlanta, GA, workshops with Keith Carter and Magnum photographers David Alan Harvey and Alex Webb as well as countless hours studying the work of influential artists. He is a collector of photographs and photography books. His photographs have been exhibited in a variety of venues and galleries across the U.S. He is a published author of poems and short stories. Robert has served as a juror and curator of photography exhibits and is a founding member of Southlight Salon.

Richard Schramm has been making photographs for over forty years, but only with his retirement in 2016 has he been able to devote full time and attention to his work.  From his home in Carrboro, NC, he explores the South with his camera.  His work has been selected for inclusion in the South Carolina Picture Project and has appeared in the Oxford American’s Eyes on the South series.  His photographs have been included in exhibitions at the Frank Community Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC.  In the spring of 2019 one of his photos appeared in South x Southeast’s exhibition “Our Common Core,” and in January, 2020, another of his images will be featured in an exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Photography in Greenville, SC.

I’ve been making photographs, prints, and combining techniques for more than four decades, and painting since childhood.  Under Fritz Janschka at Bryn Mawr and Haverford and with Chris Johnson at California College of the Arts, I hold a BA in fine arts and an MFA.  My work is in private collections in many of the United States, as well as private collections in several European countries, and one museum permanent collection.

Long ago, I worked with a few creative models, making photosilkscreen prints with their images and exhibited in about 35 shows in the 1980s and 1990s.  Since 2014, I’ve been photographing and “bringing to life” female portrait statues, these women mostly now unknown, and have shown this work in about 25 exhibitions.

Childbirth was often fatal, disease rampant, war, literally, on the horizon; women maintained society and civilization, expecting no legacy. They were mostly brave, courageous, and valiant. Immortalized in stone but forgotten, it’s my work to find out who they, and their sculptors, were. I am their medium and they are my calling. Their stories matter. This is the time to honor these women who laughed, raged, were inspired, and loved. I invite you to celebrate, remember, and honor them.  I hope you can’t forget them.

I moved to rural Georgia from California in 2012.  I doubt I’d have begun this contemplative work if I had remained in busy California; I see no end to it.

“Marty”, a resident of the Miller Beach section of Gary, IN, loves the beauty of the local environment. In all seasons of the year, one sees Marty with her camera hiking in the Indiana dunes.  She aims to capture the uniqueness of the interplay of light with wildlife and landscape.  She has exhibited her photography locally and nationally in Lubbock TX, Chicago, IL, Evanston IL and Santa Fe, NM. and has received numerous awards for her photos.   She is self-taught, having begun photography at the age of 10. She is a founding member of the Miller Beach Arts and Creative District. Marty is Professor Emerita of Northwestern University. Before retiring, she was Director of the Neurobiology Program at Lurie Children’s Memorial Research Center and managed a research program focused on developing new gene therapies for Parkinson’s disease. She now spends most of her time on photography, gardening and traveling. She has enjoyed photography in over 80 countries and all 7 continents.

With a simple snowfall Cynthia Matthews’ New York City is transformed. Buildings dissolve into soft shadows, streets turn quiet, crowds disappear and a kind of hush falls across the town.Capturing this quiet rhythm of Manhatten in the snow, her lyrical and evocative photographs have a magic that pulls you back to a simpler time.

In addition to following snow-laden paths, Cynthia has photographed assignments around the world for major magazines and periodicals. Her photographs have been exhibited in solo and group shows as well as acquired by corporations, museums and private collectors.