photo-eye Gallery Chris McCaw | photo-eye Conversations LIVE + NEW book photo-eye Gallery Last month we hosted a conversation between artist Chris McCaw and photo-eye Gallery director Anne Kelly, via Zoom in honor of McCaw's new book Marking Time. In case you missed it or would like to revisit or share it, the good news, we recorded it and are pleased to share it today.

Chris McCaw, Sunburned GSP #932 (Idaho), Unique Silver Gelatin Print, 8x10 in.

Last month we hosted a conversation between artist Chris McCaw and photo-eye Gallery director Anne Kelly, via Zoom in honor of McCaw's new book Marking Time. In case you missed it or would like to revisit and share it, the good news is that we recorded it and are pleased to post it today!

photo-eye Conversations is a series of causal conversations with photographers 

 we have the honor of working with. 

View | Order  Chris McCaw's new book Marking Time HERE

Marking Time, Photographs by Chris McCaw, Datz Press, 2023. 

Sunburn was a conceptual experiment and adventure in connecting time and analog photographic tools. … I continuously study what directions and shapes of sun trajectories I can obtain in various times and spaces on the Earth. I expect a magical scene to appear, but it is not just vague waiting. I study meticulously. To obtain the traces of the rising and setting sun, you must personally travel to that time and space. It cannot be manipulated. And I just love that process. 

— Chris McCaw 

 

Marking Time, Photographs by Chris McCaw, Datz Press, 2023. 

Chris McCaw works with a manually modified large format camera, loading vintage photo paper in place of film, and letting the sun come through the lens to physically burn the paper. This analog photographic method holds the unique documentary aspects of photography, as it captures the day and night of a distinct time and place. The passage of time is also recorded on the vintage paper, marked through varying levels of sunlight throughout the day. This book is a compilation of McCaw’s diverse work from the past 20 years, featuring the significant Sunburn series along with his Heliograph, Poly-Optic, Cirkut, and Tidal series, allowing us to experience the full scope of his variations flowing as one body centered around the sun. 

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photo-eye Gallery photo-eye Conversations: Live w/ Mitch Dobrowner PHOTO-EYE GALLERY photo-eye Gallery is happy to share the recording of our live Zoom conversation with Mitch Dobrowner, the first segment of photo-eye Conversations: LIVE

Mitch Dobrowner, Supercell Swirles & Lightening, Clayton, New Mexico, 2022, 20x30", Edition of 25, $2,500

In case you missed it, we're happy to share the recording of our live Zoom conversation with Mitch Dobrowner, the first segment of photo-eye Conversations: LIVE!

The Zoom gathering was a relaxed chat between Gallery Director Anne Kelly and photographer Mitch Dobrowner, followed by a Q&A. 

Dobrowner has been traveling across the country with professional storm chasers for over a decade with the goal of capturing the calm amidst the storm. Though this seems counterintuitive, Dobrowner's hyper-technical approach and incredibly focused compositional eye enable him to find a sense of grounding even during the most extreme weather events. The translation of this imagery into flawless black-and-white prints provides the viewer with that same sense of peace, even among the chaos, a moment of stillness can always be found.

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Mitch Dobrowner was born in 1956 in Long Island, Bethpage, New York. Worried about Mitch's future and the direction his life will take, his father decided to give him an old Argus rangefinder to fool around with—little did he realize that it would become a significant gesture for Mitch. After doing some research, and seeing work by Minor White and Ansel Adams, Mitch quickly became addicted to photography.

Years later, in early 2005, inspired by his wife, children and friends—he again picked up his camera. Working with professional storm chaser Roger Hill, Dobrowner has traveled throughout Western and Midwestern America to capture nature in its full fury; making extraordinary images of monsoons, tornados, and massive thunderstorms with the highest standard of craftsmanship. 

Dobrowner’s Storms series has attracted considerable media interest from National Geographic, Time, and New York Times Magazine, among others. In August of 2022 a print of the image Rope Out, from a private collection, has been acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Other museums that have acquired Mitch's work include The Center of Creative Photography, Tucson AZ; The National Gallery of Art, Washingon D.C.; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston TX; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleaveland OH; Portland Museum of Art, Portland OR; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA; and the Middlebury Museum of Art, Middlebury VA. 

He lives with his family in Studio City, California.

photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent artist Mitch Dobrowner.

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SAVE THE DATE!

photo-eye Conversations: LIVE w/ Kate Breakey

August 17, 2023  /  @6pm MT

via Zoom

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If you are in Santa Fe, please stop by during gallery hours or schedule a Virtual Visit HERE.  

For more information, and to reserve one of these unique works, please contact 

Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Jovi Esquivel.

You may also call us at (505) 988-5152 x202

photo-eye Gallery

1300 Rufina Circle, Unit A3, Santa Fe, NM 87507

Tuesday– Saturday, from 10am- 5:30pm