Vermont Center for Photography

I make 35mm color images that help me to reveal what I feel about the natural world: its colors shapes, textures, lines, and forms. My background in science supports my visual expressions on film where my goal is to make a connection between myself and the observer. I try to make familiar and simple things in nature acquire the elegance that I see through my lenses. I hope my work inspires the observer, subconsciously or not, to develop his or her own special vision and see beauty where one might not even know to look. My lenses are my brushes and to create images that transcend the ordinary, I must know exactly how each will visually express the light that is painted on my film. I see an invisible image in my mind’s eye and then endeavor to record it on emulsion. My years as a photography instructor have helped me refine and express to my students myriad photographic concepts, thereby becoming a better artist.

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Bob Cantius says: “As an Artist and Photographer, I describe my approach and philosophy toward my work in terms I refer to as the ‘window and mirror’ experience… My view and ‘point of view’ converge in time and place within the many moments and events of the world around me; and those events and moments that have led me to that point in time… There can be no ‘continuum in a vacuum’… We select, abstract and create within a communal and universal ‘life experience’ with ‘citizen others’; other souls on the uncommon streets and in those home towns where we love and toil to be.. There is evoked a passionate, lovely, hopeful, oral, aural, tactile and visual conversation, affirming and expanding our personal and shared human ‘Gestalt’ ...I see my camera studies as anthropological; self-inclusive, empathetic and interactive and ever evolving (especially, and including within those conversations and insights with viewers taking place in front of the exhibited image.”

See more of Bob Cantius's work at: Robert Cantius at Valley Artists

Brett Simison is a commercial, editorial, and fine art photographer based in Middlebury, Vermont. Over the course of his career, he has worked for a variety of clients throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Central America, shooting everything from studio product photography to assignments in the jungles of Guatemala. He strives to meld the worlds of documentary and fine art, endeavoring to tell a story that reaches the viewer in an informative and emotional way. Today, Brett, his wife Amy, and son Connor live in the town of Middlebury, Vermont.

See more of Brett Simison's work at: http://www.BrettSimison.com

Working in a combination of traditional photographic methods and digital printmaking, Christine Triebert produces all her custom prints from her studio located along the beautiful Rock River in southern Vermont.

Chris is a three-time recipient of a Golden Light Award, including the 2003 award for her images of the Irish landscape.

See more of Christine Triebert's work at: www.rockriver-studio.com/

All of my visual explorations have the same fundamental components: content, composition, and lighting. The combination of technical and creative layers set the stage for my work’s underlying premise: the importance of recognizing the essential beauty found in the mystery of life and the very important role it plays for a healthy and balanced existence.

Eric Slayton is a fine art photographer who has studied in New York City and Paris, France. His work is exhibited nationally. He works from his studio in Brattleboro, VT.

See more of Eric Slayton's work at: www.ericslayton.com

Erik prefers shooting outdoors with print film. Favorite subjects include moody landscapes, situational compositions, and abstract studies that challenge the viewer’s assumptions and perceptions.

See more of Erik Hoffner's work at: www.erikhoffner.com

Evie Lovett is a fine art photographer who works in black and white.  Her latest body of work, Backstage at the Rainbow Cattle Co., images of drag queens in rural Vermont, showed at Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Reeves Contemporary in New York and at the Brattleboro Museum in Brattleboro, Vermont.  Her work has been exhibited in juried exhibitions at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Bennington Center for the Arts in Bennington, Vermont, Photographic Resource Center in Boston, University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, The Print Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cambridge Art Association, Galveston Arts Center, and Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She is represented by galleryKayafas in Boston, Massachusetts.

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I am not so much interested in the “Grand Picture.” I am, maybe even a little perversely, interested in recording the commonplace in our everyday surroundings.  In short, those things that are often overlooked. My wish is to add something extra to the ordinary.

Gene has been published in photographic journals and has been exhibited in private and university galleries as well as art museums nationally where he has received numerous awards.  Having lived in N.Y.C., Michigan, and Utah, he now resides and works in Amherst, Ma.

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I have been making fine art photographs for over 35 years.  During the 1960s I began studying photography at Carnegie-Mellon University, and by the mid 1970s, as a builder, instructor and part owner of a photographic workshop center, I had worked with a wide variety of teachers and practitioners in the field, among them John Benson, Paul Caponigro, Robert Frank, Ralph Gibson, Aaron Siskind, Fred Sommer, George Tice and Minor White.

My images are about illusion and allusion, meditation, and, sometimes, the magic I’ve found along the way.  I am intrigued with the sensation of abstraction; with how conventionally perceived ‘reality’ sometimes progresses or shatters, giving way to more essential forms. 

See more of Jim Schlessinger's work at: www.jimschlessinger.com

Photography provides me with a visual tool for exploration and communication. Often the photographs I am most fond of can be seen as both sentimental and emotionally challenging. I attempt to rattle the viewers’ existence, raising emotional issues and questions so they may connect with their own feelings and beliefs.

John received his MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. His photographs have been exhibited throughout the country and internationally. He is the Co-Founder and President of the Board for the In_Sight Photography Project, a non-profit organization offering photography programs for youth. 

See more of John Willis's work at: www.jwillis.net

Although rooted in film photography and darkroom printing - my work is now fully digital, with the occasional forays into transfer printing onto non traditional printing medium.  I make images that span a wide range of subjects and genres and have bodies of work that range from art to street photography. I am most gratified when using photography to tell a story, when the “art of seeing” is in play. 

See more of Ken Signorello's work at: http://www.GreenDestinyImages.com

Kirsten Hoving has loved making art since her youth, when she spent her days copying the drawings of hairstyles in the Breck shampoo ads in Seventeen magazine.  From there, she went on to become a respected art historian.  Four years ago, she took her first photography workshop to help her be a better scholar and teacher of photographic history.  In between writing books and articles and teaching courses about modern art and the history of photography at Middlebury College, she makes photographs of strange and sometimes wonderful things.  She is co-founder of the Vermont Photography Workplace and PhotoPlace Gallery. 

See more of Kirsten Hoving's work at: Kirsten Hoving Photographs

Len’s eclectic range of photographs includes local landscapes, urban scenes and images from his travels abroad. He began with a 35 mm camera and traditional darkroom, but with the emergence of digital technology he now works exclusively with digital images and computer enhancement.

See more of Len Seeve's work at: Len Seeve's Website

I create images inspired by the beauty present in our every day world: the texture of a flower petal, the shape of a piece of fruit, the wrinkles in a child’s hand. My goal is to foster a connection to these easily overlooked moments thus, for me, photography becomes a tool for cultivating mindfulness.

In 2003 Lynne was recognized by The Maine Photographic Workshop’s Golden Light Awards as one of the top 50 emerging photographers in the country. She currently lives in Vermont with her family.

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Mary Daniel Hobson is a mixed media photographer who delights in the tactile and expressive nature of collage and assemblage. Mapping the Body, a series of nearly 100 intimate collages, explores the emotions and experiences housed in the body. In her most recent work, Bottle Dreams, she articulates the fluid and fragmentary nature of memory by bottling torn photographs in mineral oil. Trained as an art historian, her work is deeply inspired by her studies of Dora Maar and Surrealist photography. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is also adjunct faculty at JFK University and director of the Arts and Healing Network.

See more of Mary Daniel Hobson's work at: www.marydanielhobson.com

Michael Miller photographs the rural landscape, the urban environment, architecture, and found objects, using large-format black and white and, more recently, digital color. In creating straightforward visions of the material environment, he tries to lead the viewer into the spirit of time and place. Michael has studied with Morley Baer, John Sexton, Robert Dawson, and Ken Schles. He makes fine art prints for exhibition and publishes images in traditional and online magazines, often with his own articles on the arts, architecture, and travel. He also works with artists, collectors, dealers, and museums in photographing architecture and works of art. He is also editor/publisher of The Berkshire Review for the Arts.

See more of Michael Miller's work at: http://michaelmillerphoto.com

Moti’s first medium of expression was painting, where he created surreal dreamscapes that represented the unconscious realm of the psyche. His desire for more movement in his paintings led him to sketch dancers and to explore dance himself.  Throughout Moti’s years as a dancer, he began photographing dance. Through this evolution Moti integrated photography with movement, gesture, and the expressive body. For Moti, photography offers a direct approach to depicting the human form, which enables him to capture the physicality of dancers in the moment. Further digital manipulation of these images then allows dream worlds where the impossible becomes possible, where a fusion of images stirs the imagination in new and unexpected ways.

See more of Moti Zemelman's work at: http://www.moti-media.net

Paul Miller is a semi-retired dairy farmer from Vernon, VT. He has actively pursued photography as a hobby for over 40 years, being involved with the Brattleboro Camera Club and more recently with VCP. His special interests are in scenic, nature and travel. For several years he did free-lance work for various farm trade magazines.

I bought my first camera in Vietnam and have been hooked on photography ever since. My primary interest is landscapes in panoramic format using a Hasselblad X pan. (I still shoot with film.) I am always looking for anything that excites me visually.
Richard Cofrancesco

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Richard worked at Zone VI Studios for 15 years. There he was responsible for product design, testing, and the manufacturing of the photographic equipment. Besides being a master craftsman Richard is a very accomplished photographer, he has been photographing with large format cameras for over 25 years. He specializes in large format camera repair and restoration and offers large format workshops at his studio in Townshend, VT.

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Born in 1943, Ron Rosenstock earned his MA degree in Photography from Goddard College. He had studied Photography with Minor White in study groups and workshops from 1967 to 1973. Ron has also participated in private studies with Paul Caponigro from 1969 to the present.  Ron has published four photography books; The Light of Ireland (with an Introduction by Paul Caponigro), Chiostro: Photographs of Italy, Hymn To The Earth (with poetry by the Irish Poet, Gabriel Rosenstock and an introduction by Carl Chiarenza), and JOURNEYS (with an introduction by Paul Turnbull and a Preface by B.A. King).  Ron’s photographs are in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, International Center of Photography and the Polaroid Collection. He has been honored with well over 100 exhibits in the United States as well as Many countries in Europe. Presently Ron is a frequent lecturer to social, community and professional groups as well as being an international Photo tour leader in Iceland, Morocco, Italy, Ireland, Peru, Bhutan, Greece and the Czech Republic.

See more of Ron Rosenstock's work at: http://www.ronrosenstock.com

Sondra has produced a significant body of work using vintage cameras, most notably the Brownie Hawkeye manufactured by Kodak from the late 1940s to early 1960s. Her work has been exhibited throughout New England. Art historian Mimi Hellman in her article, “Sondra Peron: Peripheral Vision” stated, “Using an apparatus that lacks the acuity associated with both photographic sophistication and human power, Peron reveals the incisiveness of partial, fleeting, contingent vision and invites us to discover the uneasy pleasures of a world at the edge of visibility”.

See more of Sondra Peron's work at: www.sondraperon.com

Suzanne L. Flynt of Dummerston, Vermont, practices wet plate collodion and pin-hole photography. Suzanne is Curator of Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where she oversees a photography collection of more than 20,000 photographs and negatives. Suzanne’s interest in nineteenth-century photography resulted in The Allen Sisters: Pictorial Photographers 1885-1920, which was awarded the Historic New England Book Prize in 2002. Suzanne Flynt has served on the board of the Vermont Center for Photography since 2008.

I have always been attracted by the beauty of nature and every day objects - the way that the sun creates shadows that are constantly changing. I am drawn to old places, buildings, abandoned houses. I am always curious about why the buildings were abandoned. I feel compelled to record their existence since the next time I return they may be gone.  I have been making photographs for more than 40 years. Until a few years ago I had a darkroom for all my black and white processing. Although I made the transition to digital processing I still miss the darkroom, its magic, even the smell of the chemicals. I began with 35mm format, migrated to a Hasselblad with a medium format, and am now using 35mm in a digital world. Ironically, I am performing edits to images which are similar to actions I performed on prints in my darkroom days. My goal in all that I photograph is to depict the beauty of the scene to the viewer. Admittedly this is a subjective process but I try to render a realistic image - although I feel free to enhance the image to bring out what I felt when I took the photograph.  Although I capture all of my images in color, I often convert my images to black and white when I feel the scene will be interpreted better in black and white. I have been heavily influenced by Ansel Adams, John Sexton, and Steve Nestler.  I have displayed my work in New England, Philadelphia, and various venues in New Jersey. I am an Associate Artist with the Renaissance Riverfront Center in Millville, NJ and a member of the Cape May County Art League where I am also the Treasurer. I am the founder and active member of Cape May Light and Shadows, a photo group in Cape May, New Jersey.

See more of Tom Singleton's work at: http://www.thefinalimage.net

I am attracted to photography for two reasons: I want to observe, and I want to create.  The first is somewhat objective and analytical, whereas the second is subjective and free-wheeling. The photographs I find most pleasing represent one of these two broad themes.  I spend considerable time taking images to record my space: buildings, landscapes, everyday events. etc.  Some of these photos are snapshots of a moment-in-time while others record broad landscapes or streets
which are carefully constructed recordings of today’s world.  In my wanderings I am frequently drawn to normal, everyday scenes such as mailboxes, fruit and vegetables, frost on a window, boxcars, and so on – things we see each day but may not record in our minds.  It is my hope that you, as a viewer, will look at an image and in a subjective, emotional way be drawn into the scene before you. Along with recording, photography in both its conventional and digital format allows for the artist to create.  I enjoy playing with the original image, adjusting saturation levels, cropping to produce an interesting perspective, softening the focus of the image, experimenting with different washes, and so on.  Thanks to computer programs like Photoshop and Lightroom, I am able to sit back and create in the free-spirited manner of a child.  Perhaps that is what I am looking for in these creative activities: to return to a uninhibited, childlike state of mind.

See more of William Dixon's work at: www.dixonphotography.smugmug.com