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November Issue 2005
Summit One Gallery in Highlands, NC, Features Photographic Exhibition
The High Lands in Focus will open at Summit One Gallery, in Highlands, NC, on Nov. 25 and continues through Dec. 31, 2005. This photography exhibition showcases the sites, views and scenes of the fabulous high lands that surround Highlands. Summit One Gallery's photographers have created new works to be premiered and included some "old favorites" also.
The exhibition is a "Partnership in Stewardship" with the Land Stewards of Highlands. Ten percent of the sale of each photograph in the exhibition will be donated to the Lands Stewards. The Land Stewards of Highlands work to emphasize the uniqueness of the environment of the Highlands' plateau; focus on the need to preserve and nurture it so that it can be enjoyed by all. The organization conducts "Plant Rescues", gathering native plants, identify plants for home owners, and finding a suitable new area for the rescued plants. Brochures and videos are available from the Lands Stewards showing landscaping with native plants that will thrive in the High Lands.
Kevin Saunders
Participating photographers include: Cheryl Bird, Hunter Coleman, Susan Kazlow Friedland, the late Ben Greig, David McCord, Don McGowan, Kevin Saunders, and William Smith. Summit One's photographers work in black and white as well as in color and hand-tinted formats. All of them live, work and/or photograph here because of the inspiration and awesome landscape.
Cheryl Bird lives in Clayton, GA, and is a painter at heart and uses her black and white photographs to combine painting and photography to produce hand colored images. She prints on fiber base paper and rubs the oil color into the surface. "I want my colors to be delicate and mystical and draw the viewer's eye into the shadows and around the image," she says.
Hunter Coleman is know by many as the Highlands' Presbyterian minister but has been photographing for five years. "I have no professional training but am anything but 'self-taught'. I say that because of a sign in front of a country church I saw years ago: 'a self made- man is a product of unskilled labor'", says Hunter. He reads everything he can get his hands on including several books by Gordon Parks, Ansel Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz. It is his hope that the eye of the lenses of his camera just might open other eyes to see what is there waiting to be seen. "Awe, for me, is the beginning of wisdom and transformation."
Susan Kazlow Friedland is relatively new to
Summit One Gallery but not to photography. She is an Atlanta photo
artist who captures the world through her camera lens with an
unusually keen artist's eye. Her photography is emotion provoking
and elegant in its reverence for ordinary objects and scenes.
Friedland was the featured artist in Spring 2005 at Urban Art
Works in Alpharetta, GA, and at Mary Vincent Fine Art in the Chicago
area town of LaGrange, IL. In October of 2004, she completed a
month of multiple showings as a featured artist in the October
2004 citywide festival, Atlanta Celebrates Photography.
Her photograph, You Say Tomato was the first place winner
of the Atlanta Journal Constitution 2002 Travel Photography Contest.
The late Ben Greig has been a treasure to Summit One Gallery and to all of the Highlands plateau for many years. His photography focused solely on the botanical. Being featured in this exhibition is his Highlands Dahlia Series. Greig started photographing in 1930 with a small Brownie camera and he continued to pursue the latest in equipment that would allow him to devote his entire attention to the subject and the composition. He photographed flowers here and around the world. Greig will be terrifically missed by all whose lives he touched.
David McCord lives in Tallahassee. FL. He has
also lived and worked in North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Arizona,
Colorado, and Germany. His photographic journey began almost thirty
years ago when he made the transition from graphic art to photography.
McCord received his formal photographic training at the Southern
Center for Photographic Studies, Dayton Beach, FL. Since 1983,
he has built a client list that includes: The US National Park
Service, Twentieth Century Fox, ESPN, Associated Press, Sun Trust,
Arvida, Sprint, Florida Trend, HCA, Double Tree Hotels, Marriott
International, US Marine, Inc., and GTE. His fine art landscapes
are included in private collections nationally and he is exhibited
in galleries in the southeast.
Don McGowan is an award-winning nature photographer, a celebrated instructor in nature photography, and a sought-after creator of acclaimed nature audio/visual slide programs. He brings an artist's eye and a craftsman's touch to the fields of conservation and environmental photojournalism. With more than ten years in professional nature imagery and five in instruction at some of the most highly regarded arts and crafts schools in the Southeast, he is fully qualified as both a talent and a teacher.
Kevin Saunders has lived in Atlanta since 1981, but also spends much of his time in Cashiers, NC. He works with both a 35mm Pentax camera and a medium format Bronica. Saunders often traveling with two or three cameras and keeps one loaded with color film. He sees photographic subjects as either distinctly Black & White or color, and often titles the shot as it is taken. His images are included in national and international collections including: King & Spalding, McKenna Long, Kilpatrick Stockton, Troutman Sanders, and The Georgia Power Corporation, University of Georgia and the Bascom Louise Gallery and various private collections.
William Smith, a full time resident of Waynesville, NC, was born in Atlanta and graduated from Duke University. Vitally involved in photography for over 50 years, he has devoted his efforts primarily to large and medium format fine art black and white photography for the past 15 years. He has attended workshops with renowned professionals such as Fred Picker at his Zone VI workshop, at a large format workshop with Tom McCartney at the Palm Beach Photo Workshop, and most recently at John Sexton's Workshop in Carmel Valley, CA. Smith's work is included in private and corporate collections throughout the country.
For more info check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/526-2673 or at (www.summitonegallery.com).
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