Longmeadow, MA - Thanks to a generous grant from the Longmeadow Cultural Council Arthur Rainville, M.PHOTOG. CR, CPP, API, ASP HON. ESP will present his program “…for a Return Ticket” at the monthly meeting of the Photo Club at the Longmeadow Adult Center, 231 Maple Road, at 1:30 PM on Thursday October 8th. The program is free and open to the public, but you must be 55 + to attend the live program and please register at the front desk. It will also be on our YouTube channel: valleyphotocenter 

Arthur Rainville is an award winning photographer from New Bedford. He has been creating stunning photographs and paintings drenched in atmosphere, drowned in romanticism, for over 60 years. He is the former Portrait Department Chair and Academic Director of the New England School of Photography in Boston. He has also lectured across the country and  around the world at Universities, Museums, and professional photography associations. His life’s work is being displayed in museums and private collections on three continents; he has been touted as, “the Poet Lauréate of Photography and Art, one of the most sensitive artists of our time.”

Mr Rainville says “…for a RETURN TICKET will be about The big Why… why do we make photographs?  For a Return Ticket of course.  We want to slide back to a memory, a time, a place, a face… somewhere, something, someone that was, is, an integral part of the fabric of our life.

           As visual artists we create these images from two sides of our creative brain. We weave the technique into a viable language with or seeing brainside and we cement it with our feelings, our personal connection way of making the image a worth emotional treasure.”

            Arthur will share a bohemian approach to crafting powerful work from landscape to nature to “real humans.” Drawing from historic art and from his trove of personal experiences as a lifelong celebrated photographic artist and educator, he will offer a rarified path to the new meaningful imagery.

 Springfield, Massachusetts - The VPC has a new show in the Tower Square Springfield show featuring prints from the camera club members.

Longmeadow, Massachusetts -There is a Camera Club exhibit at the Longmeadow Adult Center on display now.

Ed Cohen received a proclamation from the Springfield City Council for his many years of doing photography in the City of Springfield, Massachusetts at his meet the artist reception at the Valley Photo Center gallery on Saturday, November 18, 2023.