IGAL STULBACH:

"I'm a visual artist making photography, documentary films and video art. I'm exploring the borders between those fields. My way is constant search and experimentation. I am a flaneur. Born in Krakow Poland in the year 1949 to Holocaust survivors , since 1959 living in Bat Yam, Israel. I started my artistic activity at a relatively late age. In the year 2015 I made a documentary film named “Group portrait” (Short monologues by second-generation Holocaust survivors) which was broadcast on Israeli national TV -channel 10 and screened in several cinematheques.

My video art and photography works have been shown in exhibitions in Israel and abroad. I received awards for my artworks in several photography and film contests and festivals. My photographs have been published in print and online magazines."

www.stulbach.com


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JEAN GUY LATHUILIERE:

"NOX REPETITA"

"The series was initiated several decades ago, when, to take pictures outdoor at night, I first started researching the possibility of exposing 64 ISO Ektachrome films - and others - beyond their colour reproduction capacities. 

Unfortunately what was possible with monochrome films, was not possible with colour films. Thus I had to carry my heavy tripod to be able to make longer exposures.  

One day, the director of a printing company who had the opportunity to visit a friend of mine at her home, who was as well one of his clients, discovered a print from the series Nox Repetita framed on the wall. She confided that he stood in front of the picture for long minutes without speaking.

Later, he got in touch with me for a pleasant job. In order to highlight his high quality as a printer, he suggested that I adapt this series to an item printed in a small, numbered and signed edition. I was given carte blanche, but I had to take the photos for the series in the city where he had his business, so that people would recognise the place and easily identify the printing company. So I couldn't photograph Paris, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Warsaw or Athens. 

I accepted the challenge, which, despite its limitations, was very interesting, and made the ordered pictures."


www.jeanguy-lathuiliere.photography

 

KATHRYN REICHERT:

"The skin of our sleep is a flimsy thing. Within seconds, the world as we have deemed it to be real is strewn across an enormous expanse, left to mingle with something stronger and stranger. Internal and external swirl together. Color and motion begin to take shape and their fluidity is boundless. 

“Hypnagogia” refers to that nebulous, albeit brief, state of consciousness between asleep and awake. The mere minutes spent toeing this threshold are among the most remarkably elusive and least understood tier of the human mind despite the fact that we all share in this experience every day. During this fragmentation of thought, our minds release from the mechanism that inherently demands rationalization. Free of this demand, our dreams, whether narrative or formless, are simply illustrations of our inner truths and vulnerability. Our thoughts are displayed as visual poetry, beautiful and relatable in their openness and a beacon of introspection to those who care to delve deeper into interpretation. What is left is honesty, unfiltered. 

I began shooting Hypnagogia in 2017 amidst the descent into a crisis that forever changed my life. My hold on sleep, already tenuous, was the first thing to go. At night I found myself in a constant state of push and pull as I inched towards the tipping point of consciousness. I lost the distinction of imagination and reality in the space between the two. During the day, I struggled to put words to a problem I didn’t understand and couldn’t identify. I became consumed with the idea of visually portraying the language of the conscious as I had felt it at night, convinced that if I could see what was going on, I could understand it—and therefore fix it. The impressions of my movements left during these un-choreographed long exposure self-portraits appeared as “ink blots” reflecting the free flow of the hypnagogic state; simultaneously open to interpretation while offering small anchors of familiarity. Hypnagogia became my visual diary while lost in the maze of my own states of consciousness and, later, my map back out."

Kathryn Reichert is best known for her genre-bending work in photography with images blending digital and analog media with alternative photographic processes, painting and intaglio printing.

Her work circles the idea of the psychological landscape created by experiences, thoughts and memories and its impact on our varying interpretations of reality. Since her start in 2015, her work has been shown in galleries and museums across the United States and Europe. She draws inspiration across mediums, from early painters to contemporary experimental artists, as well as her own life experiences. 

Kathryn holds bachelor’s degrees in both business and fine arts from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and a closet full of cameras.

www.kathrynreichert.com 
www.instagram.com/ksreichert/ 
 

KEVIN LYLE:

"My process is fueled by an innate hunter/gatherer impulse. Most of my images are collected within walking distance of my home on Chicago's north side. I rarely venture out with a clear objective. When I photograph something, I may or may not have a clear understanding of its meaning or value at the time. I trust my instincts. Post production analysis sometimes results in recognition almost immediately. Other times it takes months or years for an image to reveal itself"

Kevin first became interested in art around the age of 12.  Art class became the most interesting part of school. After one semester at the Cleveland Institute of Art he realized that art school was not for him.  He is a self taught photographer. Collecting African masks and the process of photographing them for documentary purposes led to a broader interest in photography and the collecting of images. Most of his images are collected within walking distance of his home on Chicago's north side. 

Images For Sale:

Nocturnal 18140 - 19"H x 13"W
Archival Paper
$300 Unframed
Open Edition
Signed on back

 
Nocturnal 18361 - 19"H x 13"W
Archival Paper
$300 Unframed
Open Edition
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Nocturnal 19274 - 19"H x 13"W
Archival Paper
$300 Unframed
Open Edition
Signed on back

Contact: Kevin Lyle
klyle2006@gmail.com

www.kevinlylephotos.com
www.instagram.com/klyle2006

LARRY MILLER:

"The actual taking of a picture at night always seems like magic.  Night photography offers a unique composition canvas. At night, our surroundings transform into a different kind of beauty.  It is amazing how everything changes when the sun goes down. Night photography is like a new world and can produce some of the most beautiful images. The night presents a quiet and solitude, allowing introspection and creativity."

Images for Sale:

Dusk - 11" h. x 14" w.
Archival Paper
$400 unframed
Limited Edition 15
Signed on back


Super Moon.  11" h. x 14" w.
Archival Paper
$400 unframed
Limited edition 15
Signed on back


Desert Tree.  11" h. x 14" w.
Archival Paper
$400 unframed
Limited edition 15
Signed on back

Contact:  Larry Miller
lmillerinmotion@gmail.com

 

 

PHILLIP MUDD:

Phillip Mudd is a multi-media artist and designer with a particular focus in photography from the small town of Benton City Washington. Phil’s current practice is rooted in the exploration of the everyday. The day in day out people, experiences, acts, and spaces. The groups, communities, and systems that help influence individuals and culture. Predominantly project based Phillip attempts to survey, people, spaces, social frameworks, even current events. To produce works that range from social documentary to cultural critique.
Anything really for better or worse.

www.fulminated.com
http://www.instagram.com/phillip.mudd

SHAWN DIGITY:

Shawn Digity is a nature, wildlife, and landscape photographer. He ventures to various locations across the United States' Midwest and Appalachia regions. Exploration and freedom are two primary tenets of his photography style.

Statement: "I frequent big cities, small towns, and numerous parks
(among other locations). Many of my photos include urbex and rurex
findings from several areas in Appalachia and the Midwest. While I call it exploration photography on a larger scale, it commonly
encompasses wildlife and landscape photography, and sometimes architecture, street, and astrophotography."

www.instagram.com/backroadsinfinity

SOOHYUN JEONG:

"I am Soohyun Jeong, an emerging photographer based in South Korea. I have worked as a contemporary jewellery designer and recently expanded my creative practice into photography.
Jeju, nestled at the southernmost tip of South Korea, is a land deeply ingrained in the hearts of Koreans, celebrated for its breathtaking nature and unique heritage preserved through generations. As an outsider travelling to and from this island in 2024, I found myself yearning to uncover the hidden secrets of a place so familiar yet so enigmatic.

As everyone expects, Jeju during the day captivates us with its natural beauty, warmly embraced by the sunlight. However, when night falls, the island transforms. In stark contrast to its daytime charm, the distorted appearance of nature, bathed in the artificial glow of scattered lights, reveals an unsettling yet strangely intriguing otherness. And it was here, in this peculiar duality, that I discovered the secret I had been seeking in Jeju."

www.soohyunjeong.com
www.instagram.com/soohyun_j.p
 

STEFYNIE ROSENFELD:

"I have always been fascinated by nature and the intricacies of its beauty, its resilience, its vulnerabilities and its anthropomorphic tendencies. I have always felt welcomed into its culture, without question or judgement.  It is here where I have received some of my greatest gifts and where I feel most at home.  

My series, Nature’s Spirit, is an homage to the natural world and my deep connection to it.  Nature’s Spirit strives to go beyond my visual perceptions and to convey the spiritual essence of each unique encounter.  This series of images was taken at night in the Glazier Preserve in New York State.  

The work invites questions about our own entanglements, our relationships with the dark and the light, our elemental similarities and what may lie beyond."

Stefynie is an award winning photographer and composite artist whose work has been in numerous publications and galleries.  She enjoys working in different genres including portraiture, nature, narratives and composite imagery.  

Her work has been inspired by her own spiritual journey and the elemental similarities between humans and the natural world. 

www.take2films.wixsite.com/throughmylens
 

REVIEWS BY JURORS DIANA H. BLOOMFIELD & CONSTANCE ROSENTHAL:

"WATERFRONT CLUB" BY STUART RATNER:

"I was immediately drawn to the deep royal blue of the night-time sky in this image, and the partial seen red metal bridge highlighted against it. I love that both the dreamy night sky and the bridge 
graphics are echoed in the restaurant window, all inside a building the same color as the bridge. The light and the composition are spot-on perfect. This image within an image I also find very appealing. The perfectly lit interior of the restaurant looks like a movie scene— a narrative within a narrative which I love— that, and the mystery surrounding it all."
-Diana H. Bloomfield

"Waterfront Club, by Stuart Ratner takes you to the edge, you haven’t been invited inside the club, it's up to you to wonder how this place came to be, who are the people inside, and if you should cross the boundary and go on in. Much like the bridge in the image, it is inviting you to go on a journey and to keep exploring. I look forward to seeing more work from this photographer."
-Constance Rosenthal

Questions from Diana H. Bloomfield-

"I would love to know if this particular scene is one you’ve encountered before, and you just waited for the right timing for this image, or if this was just a surprises gift you happened upon one night."
 
Stuart Ratner says, "This image was a chance encounter during a solo photo jaunt. One of my ongoing projects is “Where the Water Meets the Land”, and I was exploring the waterfront of Toledo Ohio, about an hour’s drive from Detroit. I wandered the areas around the bridges over the Maumee River, because I often find magic in such places. I had done some shooting from up on the pedestrian walk of the bridge in late afternoon, and I was walking back to my car when I stumbled on the depicted building. I just set up my tripod and fired away, from several angles. 
In contrast, the other two images in the series are places I know very well, because they are near my home: the east riverfront of Detroit, and the industrial center of Zug Island, a short drive away. I’m fascinated by Zug Island’s brilliant gas flare and sudden geysers of steam. I rush out to take shots in these places when conditions are beautiful and time allows."

Diana H. Bloomfield: "Tell us about yourself. Have you been doing night-time photography for a long time? Your work is very intriguing."

Stuart Ratner: "Thank you so much for that comment, Diana. I grew up in New York City, and acquired a love of photography from my dad, who had been a commercial photographer before I was born. He still had his equpment and encouraged me to use it. Another influence was a high school teacher who built a black and white darkroom in an unused space and let students use it after hours. 
 
I’m not a professional photographer; my career has been in the biological sciences. Not surprisingly, my research has usually been directed toward questions that can be answered by imaging, especially microscopy and microcinematography.
I was always a conscientious photographer, taking good, well-composed documentary pictures, mainly of family, travel, and the places I lived, in New York City, Western Massacchusetts, Central Texas, and finally Detroit. 

About 6  years ago I began to see photography as a means of personal expression. I joined the Motor City Camera Club.  Through their workshops and monthly juried competitions, I found that, through photography, I could crystalize and communicate primal emotions that had long been locked up, and which bubbled to the surface upon encountering certain scenes, in certain types of light. That’s also when I began to do night shots, especially urban night shots. Night in a city brings out early childhood memories of excitement, and a bit of fear, at being out late with Dad in Manhattan. Night scenes also evoke some dark, surrealistically beautiful childhood nightmares, of which I can recall only fragments."

Diana H. Bloomfield: "We loved your series submission. Each image seems to mesh well together (whether they were meant to or not), and equally strong as stand-alone images. Is this part of a larger series taken in the same locale?"

Stuart Ratner: "Thanks again for your encouraging comments. These images were not intended to be a series, but they do hang together because of the somewhat dreamlike atmosphere of the scenes, which I try to emphasize through subtle adjustments of light and shadow and color in post procecssing. These images, and additional night shots, five so far, are part of a larger ongoing project of cityscapes that I call “Urban Romantic”."

Questions from Constance Rosenthal-

"Please tell us how you got started in photography and whose work you admire."
 
Stuart Ratner: "My Dad got me started in photography. He had been a commercial photographer before I was born. Actually, he specialized in 35 mm stereo slides, taken with a Stereo Realist camera. His library of stereo slides – of trade shows, weddings, industrials, scenics, and my baby pictures – were always available, and they helped motivate me to take pictures, which I began to do at age 12. Another motivator was a high school teacher who taught me and other kids how to print in monochrome in a darkroom he’d built in an unused space at the school.

I’ve had no formal training, but workshops at various camera clubs, and monthly juried competitions at the Motor City Camera Club, have shaped my visual sensibilities and sharpened my skills.

The photographers I admire most are expressionistic or downright surreal, including Man Ray, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mariana Yampolski, Andreas Feininger, and Gregory Crewdson. Cinematography has also had a strong influence on me, and I greatly admire John Alton, Jack Cardiff, Georges Perinal, Russell Metty, Gordon Willis, and James Wong Howe."

Constance Rosenthal: "What drew you to night photography? How long have you been shooting after dark?"
 
Stuart Ratner: "One reason I love night scenes is that they evoke early childhood memories of being out late with Dad in Manhattan, and the mixture of excitement and fear I felt at being among the looming masses  of buildings, light, reflections, and ominous shadows. Night scenes also evoke some dark, surrealistically beautiful childhood nightmares, of which I can recall only fragments.

My very first night scenes were taken on a group photography trip with the high school teacher who I mentioned earlier. We took the subway to Times Square – amazingly, it had just rained, so the lights reflected everywhere. I shot Kodachrome transparencies and was amazed and delighted when they all came out perfectly. However, I only started taking night shots systematically and seriously when I joined the Motor City Camera Club about 6 years ago."

Constance Rosenthal: "What projects do you have planned in the future?"

Stuart Ratner: "I have three ongoing projects, to which I’m continually making additions: “Urban Romantic”, of which my submitted images are a part; “Where the Land Meets the Water”, an exploration of riverfront and lake-front environments and people;  and “Subterranian Spaces”, including shots taken in subways, tunnels, and cellars, all places which evoke for me some of those beautiful childhood nightmares that I mentioned earlier.

“Detroit Street” is a new project I recently began. I’ve long admired street photography but didn’t think I had the temperment for it, until a friend encouraged me to start. I’m making progress. A future project, when the weather warms up, is “Rails of Detroit”, encompassing the tracks, trains,  and people of the surprisingly large number of active freight lines that go through Detroit neighborhoods. I have a trip to Arizona coming up next month and hope to do a lot of shooting in the Sonoran desert."

More about Stuart Ratner-

“In these images, I strive to evoke emotions associated with the earliest memories of childhood, fragmentary memories of striking experiences and vivid dreams, formed at an age when the line between dream and  reality is not yet completely fixed. In adult life, I find that these memories return more as brief gusts of raw feeling than as detailed records.  

I try to summon these early emotional memories by capturing moments in which the feeling of a childhood dream permeates into the real world. A shimmering play of light, a surrealistic combination of elements, an enveloping shadow, can, for a moment, imbue objective reality with the primal joy, thrill, longing and dread of those early childhood experiences. Nocturnal scenes are, of course, ideal places for dreams to merge with reality. I hope that the resulting images stir echoing emotions in the viewer. 

Among my main influences are the surreal and expressionistic imagery of the photographers Man Ray, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mariana Yampolski, and Andreas Feininger.  Great cinematography has also had a strong effect: the chiaroscuro lighting of John Alton, the saturated and symbolic color designs of Jack Cardiff and Russell Metty, the deep velvet shadows of Gordon Willis.”

Stuart Ratner is an art photographer based in Detroit.  He learned photography mainly from his father, who had been a commercial photographer.
Having spent his early childhood in Manhattan, Stuart grew up an urban romantic, seeing cities and waterfronts as places of soulful beauty, where every location is suffused with echoes of past lives, dreams, joys, and losses. Stuart’s current residence, Detroit, Michigan, is a perfect place to put this vision into practice.  Landscapes are another favorite subject, though even these images seem to wind up carrying a sense of loss and yearning. 

Stuart has been active in the Detroit photographic community . He has been a member of the Motor City Camera Club since 2020, and has participated in their monthly juried competitions, as well as regional competitions of the Greater Detroit Camera Club Council, winning numerous prizes. He has also exhibited in local print exhibitions, most recently The Scarab Club’s “Archi-Texture” show, held in August 2024 at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association. 

Stuart would now like to introduce his work to a broader audience, and to participate in new photographic scenes. 

IMAGES FOR SALE-

Toward the Dawn – 11”H x 14”W
Archival Paper
$150 unframed
Signed on back
 
Night on Zug Island – 11”H x 14”W
Archival Paper
$150 unframed
Signed on back
 
Waterfront Club – 11”H x 14”W
Archival Paper
$150 unframed
Signed on back
 
Contact Stuart Ratner
studetroit@gmail.com

www.stuartratner.weebly.com
www.instagram.com/sturealist

SUZANNE WILLIAMSON:

"I am drawn by quirks of light in nighttime images. Lights in the dark trace human activity with just enough of the natural world to anchor the story. At night light
combinations from natural and artificial light produce surprising colors which give me a thrill. I don't seek these images, so the novelty is always there, often when I travel or seek the full moon. I consider them gifts which are different from my layered landscape images I make in early morning hours.

My fine art practice includes images and installations from the landscape that reveal how it has been altered, celebrated, or degraded through human intervention. I create image sequences that are or seem to be seconds apart. I have photographed at sunrise near the water’s edge, interested in expanding our notions of time and perception. I create composite works that combine images into elusive, dream-like stories.

In 2022 the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, mounted my solo exhibition, The Language of Light. My photographs have been exhibited in juried group shows in such venues as Griffin Museum, SE Center for Photography, Center for Fine Art Photography, and Colorado Photographic Arts Center. My photographs are in the collections of Bibliothèque Nationale; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and HCC Art Galleries among others. I am a current member of the New York Artist's Circle based in New York City.

I studied anthropology and photography at SUNY College at Purchase, and photography at ICP- International Center of Photography. I learned to appreciate photography's power to persuade while managing a private photography collection in New York, which was later donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston as The Allan Chasanoff Collection. I have been Photo Editor of ARTnews magazine, and a member of the curatorial team at the Tampa Museum of Art. I was also a member of the volunteer collective, Here is New York, that formed the 9/11 photography exhibit in downtown New York City, and produced the exhibit book.

IMAGES FOR SALE:

Drought Full Moon- image on 14"H X 11"W
Archival matte paper
$250 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back


Holiday Lights- image on 14"H X 11"W
Archival matte paper
$250 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back


Lee's Grocery- image on 14"H X 11"W
Archival matte paper
$250 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back


Shadow Self- image on 14"H X 11"W
Archival matte paper
$250 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back


Stars- image on 14"H X 11"W
Archival matte paper
$250 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back


Window Lights- image on 14"H X 11"W
Archival matte paper
$250 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back

Contact: Suzanne Williamson- swilliamsonphoto@gmail.com
www.suzannewilliamson.com
www.instagram.com/swphoto1
 

VICKY STROMEE:
 
"I’m curious and adventurous, exploring the edges of objects, forms, and ideas. My work is in individual, healthcare and corporate collections. I’ve received numerous awards over the years and have participated in group and individual exhibitions throughout the US and overseas."

IMAGES FOR SALE-

Buddha Room 4h x 6w
Archival paper
$75 unframed
Open edition


All Souls 4h x 6w
Archival paper
$75 unframed
Open edition


Fourth of July 4h x 6w
Archival paper
$75 unframed
Open edition


Flying Across the Moon 4h x 6w
Archival paper
$75 unframed
Open edition


The Bee Keeper 1  6h x 4w
Archival paper
$75 unframed
Open edition


The Bee Keeper 2  6h x 4w
Archival paper
$75 unframed
Open edition
Signed on back

Contact: Vicky Stromee
vstromee@msn.com

www.vickystromeephotography.com
www.instagram.com/vickystromeephotography
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