Agora Gallery invites the public to share in its launch of Tripping the Light Fantastic, the latest display of fine art photography by artists from all over the world. Working with the latest technologies in computer and digital imaging, arranging multiple photographs together into "photomosaics", and using poetry to create "poetic photographs", each artist brings a fresh idea to the medium of photography. Trees, desert landscapes, water and sky figure in these artist's diverse interpretations of the man-made and natural worlds.
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Vladimir Andreyev
 
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If a photograph can tell a story, then Vladimir Andreyev tells epics. Hailed as the "Tolstoy of photography," Andreyev specializes in recording nature at its most exquisite moments. In many of Andreyev's photographs, the sky occupies three-quarters of the picture, thereby offering sweeping views of the sky and setting the mood of each piece. Each picture creates a different mood, depending on the perspective and the quality of light; the artist sets an emotional tone of foreboding drama or quiet reflection. Andreyev's eye for beauty lends an almost painterly quality to his work, with their lush colors and romantic compositions. The artist states that his goal is to create a "poetic photograph" that transforms nature into something inspiring. Originally from Russia, Andreyev began his work as a photographer after he moved to the U.S. His award-winning work is exhibited in private collections across the U.S. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. |
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"A Foggy Day"
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Michael L. Dailey
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The photography of Michael L. Dailey is composed of still scenes within the natural environment, yet these scenes evoke a sense of the subconscious realm of dreams. His subjects are wooden structures, standing stark and solid, touched, dried, and weathered by the hands of time. Presented in near mono-tones and muted hues, these structures contrast their surroundings: soft natural expanses and thick, vast foliage, in shades of gold and mint, on the brink of glowing with the colors of life. Hard lines cut into swirling skies; light and airy, but weighted down in heavy shades of blue and slate. Delicate, lengthy shadows fall along the smoothness of soft ground, looming over a single barren tree, conveying a sense of desolation. Throughout Dailey's work, there is a solitary feeling that speaks of quietness and calmness. The presence of man is felt, yet only seen through his creations. Dailey's photographs are silent, still, and peaceful. Through his use of color, the viewer is urged to study the contrasts of texture, to examine the detail of ordinary scenes, revealing them as not so ordinary after all. |
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"Martin Basch Farm"
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"Tree's Shadow"
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Bob Longoria
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Born in Texas in 1947, Bob Longoria has spent the majority of his career as a photographer documenting various aspects of Texas' landscape and culture. He entered the field of photography as a designer for multiple architecture and fashion firms in Dallas, and his photographs have been published in The American Institute of Architects and the Texas Association of Architects magazines. In 1998 Longoria moved to west Texas to "escape the fast paced life of Dallas and settle into a more quiet life in the desert." His move has resulted in a series of pastoral photographs depicting both the vast and minute qualities of the natural world around him. Gnarled and twisted textures of trees and plants are the focus of many of these compositions, revealing at once the elegance and the stoic character of the desert. Through black and white photography, Longoria expresses his deep fascination with the flora and sinuous trees, the light and landscape of west Texas. |
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"Branches"
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"Angelo's Tree"
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Louise Mann
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In Louise Mann's enchantingly impressionistic photographs, images of crystalline skies and burnished trees slip seductively like water over the paper. Atmospheric and magical, her images describe the ghostly forms of trees dissolving like apparitions into the air, and light that shimmers, tremulous in the high tangles of leaves and branches. In works informed by contemporary movements in abstract art, Mann focuses on the formal elements of line and shape, color and texture, light and movement. With velvety light and subtly evocative colors, Mann's current work portrays a variety of majestic West Australian trees in a style reminiscent of impressionist painting. Working in both film and digital media, Mann creates her landscapes without digitally altering the original images outside of color adjustments and minor retouching. Mann currently lives and works in Perth, Western Australia, and is represented in private collections in Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia. |
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"Wandoo Mood"
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"Burnished Gold"
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Amatsia Raanan
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The art photographs of Amatsia Raanan devote special attention to the abstract nature of the world, suggesting a non-conventional observation of nature and man-made environment.
Raanan strives to look beyond the obvious and reveal with his camera the small bits and pieces of the world that usually go unnoticed. He tends to search for the hidden and extraordinary while exploring the astounding phenomenon of life on earth. In accordance with his current artistic view, Raanan's virgin photographic images reflect reality as is, with minimal use of technical imaging manipulations. Raanan resides in Raanana, Israel. He served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force, studied Industrial & Management Engineering and performed diversified managerial and business consultation roles in a variety of sectors and fields, including the IS/IT industry. He is also a singer with the "Ha'Raananim" chorus in Raanana, Israel. Photographically self-taught, he has been an active still photographer for over ten years. Since 2004, Raanan has exhibited his works in three solo exhibitions and one group exhibition held at The Hertzliya Centre for Performing Arts, The Jerusalem Centre for Performing Arts and ID-Design Gallery in Ga'ash, Israel. |
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"Wavy"
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"Water Festival"
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Anne Savedge
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Experimental artist Anne C. Savedge uses photography to interpret the natural world around her. In her images, the exploration of the relationship between people and water results in surrealistic images that represent both the mundane and the supernatural. Fascinated by the distortions caused by reflection and refraction of light, Savedge's playful photographs incorporate the themes of immersion, timelessness, and nature to create an alternate world of distorted figures and mysterious forms. "People who move underwater exist in a different world," says the artist. Representation of this world is what intrigues Savedge. Optical illusions created by uneven surfaces and water become further obscured by the artist's use of both traditional photographic materials and digital alteration . |
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"LV Waterfall"
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"NYC 2"
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Patrick Walsh
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Art photographer Patrick Walsh refuses to identify as a photographer, and though his photo-montages directly contradict this assertation, the artist chooses to view his work as "Painting With The Camera®." Naming his style of work "Photomosaics," Walsh shoots a number of medium-sized photographs, then assembles them to form a composite image of a larger-scale photograph. His subject matter ranges from statues to landscapes to people, all puzzles made up from the individual photo/ pieces he creates. After studying graphic design at Parsons in New York City, Walsh made his first Photomosaic while working as a TV commercial director. Finding that he couldn't quite capture the essence of a locale with only one or two images, Walsh took many photos and then assembled them to give his as Ad agency client his own truer vision as to the details of the space. Since 1970 and for the next thirty six years, the artist has continued to work in this style. Outside of his personal work, Walsh has worked in the advertising and film industries. He has won eight Clio awards and four Cannes Lions, an Emmy nomination, and over 300 additional industry honors. He also has two films in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. |
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"Reflection"
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"Ken Watchman, Navajo Guide"
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