KEN OSBORN &
DALE MEAD
photography
December 5, 2009 - January 15, 2010
KEN OSBORN
kozborn@sbcglobal.net
For me the digital divide began in 2001 when I traveled to Egypt to teach laboratory sciences and decided I needed to dispense with excess weight. Film, long lenses, heavy cameras - all replaced with one small digital point-and-shoot. I have subsequently replaced that one small camera with a heavier one, long lenses, but it's still digital. I taught photography over thirty years ago and for me the wet age of photography has been replaced with its digital cousin. Welcome to the Age of Dijemry.
As a scientist and mathematician I work with numerical representations of the physical world; as a photographer I try to understand that world. For me the visual expression of everyday experiences allows an extension of my senses and an ability to go beyond the surface. Digital extends those senses even more than the older analogue world could.
Some of my work is straight from the camera and presents a native view as close as possible to the original scene. Much of my work is interpretive recognizing that reality is much more subtle than our first impressions. Frequently I rework my in-camera captures to see what else might have been hidden in that first view.
DALE MEAD
dfmead@comcast.net
In my soul, I am a journalist. My awareness swings invariably, insistently, toward what is real. And sometimes only a picture can convey the emotional power of the reality.
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(Dale Mead cont.)
I shoot photojournalism, but I seek out the scenic and strive to convey the experience of witnessing something extraordinary. Our Bay Area is often too stunning for words: Backlighted fog over the western hills; sailboats framed by the Golden Gate Bridge; or the bridge itself, a work of art from any location.
And those are just nearby, urban views. Get out to our public lands, our parks, now under threat from budget cuts. The landscape itself becomes exhibitionistic, shocking us by the sheer magnitude of its beauty: Mount Shasta, in Winter. a diamond in the semi-desert; the Pacific Coast, gloomy, sunny or violent, but always awesome; soft streams over rocks; Godbeam-stabbed redwoods. Virtually every landscape I share was taken in a, state or national park.
If I capture the extraordinary, you will ache: "I need to get there." |
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