Frank Graham Fine Photography

Friday, November 4, 2011

Posted by Frank Graham at 9:28 PM
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Next Show / Last Show

"Make it Fun" -- Shine Cafe, 14th and E St., in Sacramento, during the month of December, 2013.

"The Writer's Brush" -- a group show at The Poet's Gallery, 1719 25th St., in Sacramento, CA.

Equipment

Cameras

Hasselblad C500
Nikon N60
Ansco Viking Bellows
Poloroid
Digital Blackberry
Sony Digital

Lenses

Zeiss 80mm
Nikon Wide 28mm
Tamron 28-200mm zoom

Other Equipment

Tripod
Reflecting screen
Polorizing filters
Flash unit
Darkroom developer

Portfolios

Landscape

Santa Fe, New Mexico
Tahoe, California
Colorado
Utah

Seascape

Eastern US Coastal Beaches
West US Coastal Beaches

Nature

Wildflowers
Birds

Cityscape

Boston
New York
Paris

Human

Shop Merchants
Family
Street Photography
Social Justice
Poets
Activists
Homeless/Tent City

Animals

Pets, Cats and Dogs

Past Exhibits

Poet's Gallery 2010, 2012


Starbuck's 27th and J 2011


Off Broadway Bean 2011


The Coffee Garden 2010


Lunas Cafe 2010


Matrix Gallery 2010

Artist's Statement

In my photographs I try to capture the essence of the human condition: struggle and pleasure, joy and survival, effort and stillness. Individuals and groups frequently give signals about the elemental components of their lives. Plants and animals join us in this world and I've attempted to present how we coexist with them and how they tolerate and occasionally enjoy our presence. As with my poetry, photography is an essential part of who I am. These images represent places with which I'm familiar, from the rolling wheat fields of Oklahoma, to the burgeoning blueberry orchards of Arkansas, to the city-scapes and busy cultural experience of both coasts (and even some foreign places in between). These are places I've lived in, visited, loved. I hope you get a glimpse of what I'm trying to say in my photography. I attempt to record in detail what I know of man and nature, while giving sensual awareness priority.

Frank Graham Poetry

If you like the photography, you may also like the poetry! Visit the poetry blog:

http://fdgrahampoetry.blogspot.com/

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Experience

My real experience with photography began at age 9 when I received a Kodak camera for my birthday. I was a visual child and developed an immediate fascination with the camera. Several years later I managed to get a single lens reflex 35mm, Minolta SRT MC2. I collected lenses, filters, other equipment, and books about photography. I studied on my own, but also attended Philbrook Museum School to expand my knowledge of photography and photographic processes.

I studied darkroom and received excellent training from a professional artistic photographer. On the yearbook staff for my high school, I did most of the darkroom lab work and also took some candids. I experimented with creative photography. Also as a teen, I toured Europe and shot cityscapes of London, Madrid, and Paris. I put the camera down for several years during college, but picked it up again as a young adult and began shooting landscapes in earnest.

Later, while living in Boston to study creative writing, I lived with a professional photographer and activist and was influenced by her work. I took a keen interest in the groundbreaking historical work of Ben Shahn and other social justice photographers. I took to the streets to photograph people and also to show the danger of industry, while trying to add aesthetic value to these images. All the while I maintained my interest in landscape and seascape. As I moved back to the midwest, and then to the west coast, this interest would serve me well. I traveled through the Rockies, migrating to California and photographed the miraculous mountains, mesas, and rock formations of Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico.

My attention more recently has turned toward the poets that I have been working with for years -- I shoot candids of them at readings. Poets, whether literary or more urban in style, come to life when they read. They are very expressive and I enjoy catching this experience. I've also been photographing more of the homeless, trying to tell their story with images of tent city and their lives on the street. My portfolio has grown considerably in many ways, with so much visual stimulation present in the spectacular nature and interesting people of California.
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