The Valley Photo Center

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March 14, 2010

Photography and Art were two of the forces that drew Alfred and Lee to each other when they first met. They married and together have traveled widely, pursuing these interests.

The show represents a selection of images that reflect the content of their work…mostly it is about people…a person, who captures the imagination by revealing a compelling aspect of themselves. Caught in the instant the shutter is pressed and then put on paper…or translated into clay in a longer but no less focused way.

Alfred’s selection of images is of India…for the beauty of its people, the color and the landscape.

Lee selected those pieces of sculpture that combine in some way with her photography.   About people…[occasionally a “thing”]…the nature of which is revealed in a unique way by the photograph.

The show is called “Photography and Sculpture: A Marriage”

Alfred Hutt is a member of the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists and a practicing Ophthalmologist in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Lee Hutt is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society and a practicing sculptor in Holyoke and South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Photography website: www.alleephotography.com

Sculpture web address: www.leehutt.com

The show will be hung by 3/30/2010 and available to the public during gallery hours.

The reception will be held on Sunday April 11, 2010 between the hours of 2 and 4 pm

The public is invited to attend.

The Valley Photo Center is pleased to present the work of three photographers – Frank Ward, Robert Aller and David Prifti – at the Valley Photo Center.  The exhibit will run from February 16 through March 19, 2010.  There will be a reception for the artist on Sunday February 21^st from 1:00 – 4:00 pm.  Gallery hours at the Valley Photo Center are Tuesdays through Friday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, or by special arrangement.

Both Frank and Robert teach photography at Holyoke Community College.  David teaches high school photography in Concord, MA.

Ward will be presenting photos from his Asia Central project, of which he says, “I think of this portfolio as travel writing with a camera except that my pictures contain few scenic vistas or landmarks. … In Central Asia, the environment is ancient and the horizons are open to all that globalization has to offer. In my pictures, evidence of the Silk Road with mountain views or vast steppes is sparse. Ghengis Khan’s empire remains buried in the dust. My interpretation is of the present. What is life like now, how does regional culture manifest, and where is our interconnectedness? These questions linger as my camera contemplates what is before me.”

Aller will present work from his Strange Twilight series of photographs.  “The works in this exhibit are but a few from a larger portfolio made during a recent excursion to the northeast outer islands of Newfoundland, more notably the Island of Fogo off the coast and the Clift’s of Twillingate. … In this work I photographed not just the experience of being in a cultural landscape reminiscent of the traditional ways of life in rural Ireland. But, with its Irish descendants, remote garden’s, open grazing fields, or “commonage,”

the strange beauty of the twilight, and the poetic feeling of simply being witness to a way of life before it all fades from existence was a mesmerizing

search to know whom these people were.

www.robertaller.com
www.socialdocumentary.net/photographer/robertaller

            Prifti will show his wet plate collodion work, photographs of students of his in Concord.  David says this of his wet plate work: “Using an 8 x 10 “ view camera and the 19th century wet plate collodion process, I make tintype portraits of students, friends and acquaintances.  My interest lies in the power of a photograph to describe my subject clearly and with power. What begins with my interest in the physical appearence of the subject, develops into an evolving exploration of the sitter and myself. There is power in the tension of modern subjects being rendered in a historic process, pulling them out of time, reexamining the past as well as the present. The wet plate process is slow and labor intensive. Making these portraits requires exposure times ranging from 20 seconds to 2 minutes. It is in that collaboration that I find the power of this medium, as if the commitment required of both me and the sitter is present in the final image. It allows me to make connections with my subjects in more powerful ways than I am able to do with contemporary materials.

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