Art Ransome will speak to the Tidewater Camera Club on Monday, May 4th, 2015 at the Talbot County Community Center on Route-50 in Easton. The meeting will be held in the Wye Oak Room at 7:00pm and is open to the public.
Ransome’s topic will be “Complex Simplicity”.
“The role of the photographer is to distill the complex scene in front of them to one of simplicity that recreates the vision and emotional experience. Black and White photography removes the distraction of color if it is not an important part of the story being told. In this presentation we will peek into the technical and emotional “toolboxes” available to the photographer to recreate vision and emotion in the images we create in our attempt to emphasize the story we want to tell.”
The expression of emotion was perceived as a sign of weak character in the working class North East of England where Arthur grew up. Motivated by a desire to share his emotions and life experiences Arthur pursued photography as his outlet.
A relative latecomer to fine art photography, Arthur began his photographic life when scuba diving in Puerto Rico during the six years that he lived there. Scuba diving introduced Arthur to sights that he could only describe through the photographs that he made. Although moving to the Washington DC / Baltimore area in 2005 and stopped the scuba diving, Arthur continued to seek imagery above sea level. Working mainly with 35mm format cameras and sometimes large format, 4×5 view cameras (slowly using up his stock of very out of date Polaroid PN 55 film), Arthur photographs the black and white world that he sees around him. Although his subject matter is varied, he chooses subjects that express emotion and a sense of time, place and being.
Amongst others, Arthur’s work has been featured in B&W Magazine and Silvershotz Magazine and has been included in several exhibitions around the United States. Arthur has published two books of his work, “Lonaconing Silk Mill: Portrait of a Place” and “Iceland, A Journey Into Dreams”.
Arthur is an active speaker at national and international photography events as well as camera clubs. His work can be seen on his website (www.aransomephoto.com), where he also maintains an active blog in which he notes his feelings, thoughts and philosophy about photography.”
For information on the Tidewater Camera Club, please visit http: tidewatercameraclub.org or call Secretary Randy Welch at 410-822-5441
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