PHOTO-EYE GALLERY: Raymond Meeks

Fallen Tree, 1996
Photograph (c) Raymond Meeks

"I was driving towards the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the home of the Oglala Sioux nation and the birthplace of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted for aiding and abetting the execution style murder of two F.B.I agents during a 1975 shootout on the reservation. The indictment has been controversial (here), the subject of a film by Robert Redford and Michael Apted, Incident at Oglala, which portrays Peltier as a political prisoner.

I had just come from the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas where I’d made a few portraits of Leonard Peltier for a magazine commission. The fallen tree, partially submerged in this dried, frozen river bed, seemed a fitting metaphor to accompany the story I was illustrating."–Raymond Meeks (from photo-eye Blog: 3.22.11)

Raymond Meeks

photo-eye Gallery Artists Exhibition
March 2011, Santa Fe

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Incident at Oglala: Robert Redford
Must Read: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Trail of Tears Documentary, DVD

American Indian Movement
Statement From Leonard Peltier
Petition For Leonard Peltier

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY: Mitch Dobrowner, Edward Ranney and Chris McCaw Photographs

MITCH DOBROWNER

Clouds, 2010
Photograph (c) Mitch Dobrowner/All Rights Reserved

Shiprock triptych, 2008
Photograph (c) Mitch Dobrowner/All Rights Reserved

"I get into a ‘zone’ where time and space seem hard for me to measure." Inspired by his love of storms, LA based photographer Mitch Dobrowner set out to track and photograph these breathtakingly beautiful natural phenomena, driving over 5700 miles across ten mid-western states.

EDWARD RANNEY

San Cristobal Pueblo, Galisteo Basin, 2007
Photograph (c) Edward Ranney/All Rights Reserved

El Creston
Photograph (c) Edward Ranney/All Rights Reserved

Landscape photographer Edward Ranney's photographs from his newest monograph Down Country of the historically rich Galisteo Basin will be on exhibit. Down Country is the history of five centuries of the Southern Tewa Pueblo Indian culture that rose, faltered, reasserted itself, and ultimately perished in the Galisteo Basin. Down Country Book Signing July 16th 5-7

CHRIS McCAW

Sunburned GSP#281 (Pacific Ocean), 2008
Photograph (c) Chris McCaw/All Rights Reserved

Sunburned GSP#279 (Pacific Ocean/movement), 2008
Photograph (c) Chris McCaw/All Rights Reserved

This project has got my mind working overtime and has rejuvenated my faith in analog photography. My favorite part is watching smoke come out of the camera during the exposure!

San Francisco based photographer Chris McCaw began experimenting with burning film by means of long exposures and the sun. Through trial and error, he began using vintage fiber-based gelatin-silver black-and-white photographic paper, putting it in the film holder in place of film and creating a unique paper negative print. In long exposures the sun actually burns through the paper, creating this unique body of work.

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July 10-Sept 5, 2010

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY SUMMER EXHIBITION

photo-eye Gallery will be exhibiting a selection of photographs from Mitch Dobrowner, Edward Ranney and Chris McCaw

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photo-eye Bookstore Exhibition June 26-July 31
Knock On Wood: The Stances and Dances of Joel Lipovetsky
Photographs by Joel Lipovetsky (here)

STELLA JOHNSON: photo-eye Showcase

Djohong, Cameroon, 2003
Photograph (c) Stella Johnson/All Rights Reserved

Orinoco, Nicaragua, 2003
Photograph (c) Stella Johnson/All Rights Reserved

Orinoco, Nicaragua, 2003
Photograph (c) Stella Johnson/All Rights Reserved

"Restlessness and curiosity led me to travel to places far enough away from my immediate world to have an open field. There’s a magnetism that led me to those places, to imagine what I wanted to do with my camera."– Photographer STELLA JOHNSON

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photo-eye Photographer's Showcase
An Online Juried Photography Gallery

PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI: Contemporary Finnish Photography

Cilento, Italy, 1999
Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved

Helsinki, Finland, 1973
Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved

Solovki, White Sea, Russia, 1992
Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved

Varanasi, India, 1999
Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved

Vicki Bohannon, photo-eye Galleries Photographer-at-Large (Vicki creates those perfect Book Tease's as well as redesigning and rebuilding the Gallery space for every new installation), has been a great champion of Pentti Sammallahti long before he became well known outside of photography circles. His exquisite toned gelatin-silver prints are often wait listed.

"Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but he does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relationship, in which the power of brotherhood stemming from the environment frees man of his alienation and cosmic loneliness. Sammallahti is also known as a passionate seeker of the perfect printing method. The Opus series, launched by him, is an integral feature of contemporary Finnish book art."–photo-eye

Pentti Sammallahti Photo-Eye Gallery Book