OUR NON-HUMAN COMPANIONS-Fran Forman > HONORABLE MENTIONS:Dale Niles 'She Asks For A Zebra', Judy Brown 'Baby's Breath with Liam', Melissa Lynn 'Amur Tiger ', Vicky_Stromee 'Enigmatic Iguanas' &Suzi Moore McGregor 'Dragon and Reef '
HONORABLE MENTIONS:Dale Niles 'She Asks For A Zebra', Judy Brown 'Baby's Breath with Liam', Melissa Lynn 'Amur Tiger ', Vicky_Stromee 'Enigmatic Iguanas' &Suzi Moore McGregor 'Dragon and Reef '
SHE ASKS FOR A ZEBRA by Dale Niles
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
Curator Fran Forman says, "I read this image as two generations contentedly living with the companionship with animals, but all are threatened by the toxins emitted by the crop duster flying perilously close."
Dale Niles says, of 'Life Revisited', "When I was a child, my family would pack into the station wagon and take long trips. I was usually sandwiched in between my two brothers to keep the peace. Once we got going, my mother would begin a story with a couple of sentences and then turn over the story to someone who would add their addition. We would go around and around in the car adding our additions which were sometimes humorous and nonsensical until the story was complete. It was amazing how quickly the time would go and laughter would almost always ensue.
Boxes of inherited vintage photographs, eclectic bits of family lore, and Mama’s stories propel and inform my photo montage work. Ancestral faces, belongings, travels, and ways of life creatively, sometimes fancifully, combine with my photographs to tell a story in my layered process. Often there is a bit of truth connected in the story to the person if I knew anything about them. Otherwise it becomes a wild tale of my fabrication. It is my way of preserving these images for a bit longer, bringing them back to life as a contemporary 'car tale'."
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Niles’ formative years were spent with her family living in small, southern towns in Virginia and North Carolina. Inspired by the heritage of these locales, neighbors, and friends, she developed deep-seated southern roots that richly inform her photography practice with visual storytelling. Niles celebrates the diverseness of the human spirit, appreciating those qualities that make us delightfully unique, yet connected in many ways, particularly through shared experiences and preserved visual memories.
Niles majored in sociology at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina. While exploring opportunities in her chosen field, she pursued her artistic interests, ultimately discovering that photography was her passion. The medium offers Niles a wide berth of options for technique, subject matter, and her creative process.
Exhibitions include group and solo installations across the United States, Canada, Paris, France, and Venice, Italy.
Her prints are held in many private collections as well the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
A selection of her work is currently exhibited at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida. She was selected for Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200, Ones to Watch , the Fence, an exhibition at Hartsfield International Airport, and she won the Virginia Twinam Purchase Award.
Featured publications include: Light and Shadow Magazine, SouthxSoutheast Magazine, Shots, Lenscratch, The HAND Magazine, AllAboutPhoto and Oxford American.
Her book, What Lies With: the Eclectic Collections of Andrea Noel received recognition from Elizabeth Avedon as best photography book of 2021
WORK FOR SALE-
A Day At The Beach-12"H x 18.5" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Animal House-11.5"H x 18" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Mama Joined The Circus-18"H x 12" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys- 14.5"H x 18" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
She Ask For A Zebra-14"H x 18" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Spilled Cherries-12"H x 18" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Dale Niles
daleniles@comcast.net
https://www.dalenilesphotography.com/
Dale Niles says, of 'Life Revisited', "When I was a child, my family would pack into the station wagon and take long trips. I was usually sandwiched in between my two brothers to keep the peace. Once we got going, my mother would begin a story with a couple of sentences and then turn over the story to someone who would add their addition. We would go around and around in the car adding our additions which were sometimes humorous and nonsensical until the story was complete. It was amazing how quickly the time would go and laughter would almost always ensue.
Boxes of inherited vintage photographs, eclectic bits of family lore, and Mama’s stories propel and inform my photo montage work. Ancestral faces, belongings, travels, and ways of life creatively, sometimes fancifully, combine with my photographs to tell a story in my layered process. Often there is a bit of truth connected in the story to the person if I knew anything about them. Otherwise it becomes a wild tale of my fabrication. It is my way of preserving these images for a bit longer, bringing them back to life as a contemporary 'car tale'."
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Niles’ formative years were spent with her family living in small, southern towns in Virginia and North Carolina. Inspired by the heritage of these locales, neighbors, and friends, she developed deep-seated southern roots that richly inform her photography practice with visual storytelling. Niles celebrates the diverseness of the human spirit, appreciating those qualities that make us delightfully unique, yet connected in many ways, particularly through shared experiences and preserved visual memories.
Niles majored in sociology at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina. While exploring opportunities in her chosen field, she pursued her artistic interests, ultimately discovering that photography was her passion. The medium offers Niles a wide berth of options for technique, subject matter, and her creative process.
Exhibitions include group and solo installations across the United States, Canada, Paris, France, and Venice, Italy.
Her prints are held in many private collections as well the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
A selection of her work is currently exhibited at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida. She was selected for Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200, Ones to Watch , the Fence, an exhibition at Hartsfield International Airport, and she won the Virginia Twinam Purchase Award.
Featured publications include: Light and Shadow Magazine, SouthxSoutheast Magazine, Shots, Lenscratch, The HAND Magazine, AllAboutPhoto and Oxford American.
Her book, What Lies With: the Eclectic Collections of Andrea Noel received recognition from Elizabeth Avedon as best photography book of 2021
WORK FOR SALE-
A Day At The Beach-12"H x 18.5" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Animal House-11.5"H x 18" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Mama Joined The Circus-18"H x 12" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys- 14.5"H x 18" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
She Ask For A Zebra-14"H x 18" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Spilled Cherries-12"H x 18" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Dale Niles
daleniles@comcast.net
https://www.dalenilesphotography.com/
BABY'S BREATH WITH LIAM by Judy Brown
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
Curator Fran Forman says, "It was hard to choose between this and Astrid Wants Breakfast. Both are delightful images of animals in a farm sanctuary, and both remind us that all creatures communicate their hunger, joy, distress and love."
Judy Brown says, "Growing up in a small town in Texas, I dreamed of living on a farm, surrounded by animals. Many decades later, I discovered that my childhood fantasy farm is just up the road from my home in the Boston suburbs. And more recently I have found an animal sanctuary nearby with a treasure trove of beautiful chickens as well as other wonderful rescues.
The images in this exhibit are selected from seven years spent happily photographing these animals with the goal of showing their personalities and human-like qualities—their curiosity, their enjoyment of affection and their irrepressible appetites.
This time has enriched my understanding of these animals and heightened my awareness of the cruelty with which farm animals are treated by the food industry.
See Nicholas Kristof: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/opinion/sunday/animal-rights-cruelty.html
Along the way I completed a book of photographs of farm animals called Weatherbury Farm. My book is both a memoir of my experiences and an attempt to contribute in a small way to better treatment of animals that I have come to view as similar to my pets. It received an honorable mention from Elizabeth Avedon's list of best books of 2020.
All proceeds from its sale to to charitable organizations with an emphasis on those whose goal it is to mitigate the barbarism of the factory farm industry."
Judy Brown follows her career as Professor of Physics at Wellesley College and Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab with a combination of her long-time passions for animals and photography. She loves spending time with animals, photographing them and getting to know their individual behavioral quirks.
Her "Elliott" portfolio of a spirited pony in his stall has been given a number of solo shows including two in Griffin Museum of Photography satellite galleries and an MIT Architecture Department Tele-exhibit.
Images from her book "Weatherbury Farm" were in a two person show at the Griffin Museum satellite gallery, SOWA, Boston in the spring of 2017. Her photographs have been selected for over four dozen juried exhibitions including most recently the 2022 Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA; Animal Beings, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Light, asmithgallery, Johnson City, TX; and Conversation with the Archive at SE Center for Photography, Greenville, S.C.
Her recent book "Weatherbury Farm" was included in the Davis Orten Gallery and Griffin Museum of Photography 11th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition and received an honorable mention by Elizabeth Avedon in her list of Best Photography Books of 2020: Round-up Part II.
She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a 2019 Critical Mass 200 Finalist.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
ALL IMAGES 12" x 12"
Cansen Baryta Photographique II paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Judy Brown
jbrown@wellesley.edu
www.judybrownphotography.com
www.instagram.com/judybrownphotographswww.facebook.com/judybrownphotographs
Judy Brown says, "Growing up in a small town in Texas, I dreamed of living on a farm, surrounded by animals. Many decades later, I discovered that my childhood fantasy farm is just up the road from my home in the Boston suburbs. And more recently I have found an animal sanctuary nearby with a treasure trove of beautiful chickens as well as other wonderful rescues.
The images in this exhibit are selected from seven years spent happily photographing these animals with the goal of showing their personalities and human-like qualities—their curiosity, their enjoyment of affection and their irrepressible appetites.
This time has enriched my understanding of these animals and heightened my awareness of the cruelty with which farm animals are treated by the food industry.
See Nicholas Kristof: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/opinion/sunday/animal-rights-cruelty.html
Along the way I completed a book of photographs of farm animals called Weatherbury Farm. My book is both a memoir of my experiences and an attempt to contribute in a small way to better treatment of animals that I have come to view as similar to my pets. It received an honorable mention from Elizabeth Avedon's list of best books of 2020.
All proceeds from its sale to to charitable organizations with an emphasis on those whose goal it is to mitigate the barbarism of the factory farm industry."
Judy Brown follows her career as Professor of Physics at Wellesley College and Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab with a combination of her long-time passions for animals and photography. She loves spending time with animals, photographing them and getting to know their individual behavioral quirks.
Her "Elliott" portfolio of a spirited pony in his stall has been given a number of solo shows including two in Griffin Museum of Photography satellite galleries and an MIT Architecture Department Tele-exhibit.
Images from her book "Weatherbury Farm" were in a two person show at the Griffin Museum satellite gallery, SOWA, Boston in the spring of 2017. Her photographs have been selected for over four dozen juried exhibitions including most recently the 2022 Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA; Animal Beings, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Light, asmithgallery, Johnson City, TX; and Conversation with the Archive at SE Center for Photography, Greenville, S.C.
Her recent book "Weatherbury Farm" was included in the Davis Orten Gallery and Griffin Museum of Photography 11th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition and received an honorable mention by Elizabeth Avedon in her list of Best Photography Books of 2020: Round-up Part II.
She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a 2019 Critical Mass 200 Finalist.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
ALL IMAGES 12" x 12"
Cansen Baryta Photographique II paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Judy Brown
jbrown@wellesley.edu
www.judybrownphotography.com
www.instagram.com/judybrownphotographswww.facebook.com/judybrownphotographs
AMUR AMUR TIGER-CRITICALLY ENDANGERED by Melissa Lynn
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
Curator Fran Forman says, "Reminding us of how many species are Critically Endangered"
Melissa Lynn says, "My Code Red photography series responds to the global climate crisis and puts a spotlight on the mass species extinction currently happening on earth. The images reflect humanity’s impact on nature and serve as a call to action to help save our planet’s biodiversity.
Twenty-eight percent of assessed species are threatened with extinction due to climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and poaching. I utilize the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List to determine which plants and animals are considered vulnerable, endangered, and critically endangered.
My art process illustrates our deteriorating and polluted world through experimental techniques applied to my own photographs. The series also emphasizes conservation efforts and our interrelationship with nature. My hope is that there will be transformative changes through collective action to conserve the earth for present and future generations."
After more than a decade in New York City working as a documentary and portrait photographer for numerous publications, Melissa now lives in Colorado where she continues to pursue her artistic passions as a photographer and digital artist. Her current series respond to historic events and defining issues of our time.
Melissa’s photographs have been exhibited
in many prestigious galleries and museums across the United States and around the world including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Griffin Museum of Photography@WinCam, Fotonostrum Gallery, Colorado State Capitol Building, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Millepiani Gallery, Lone Tree Arts Center, PhotoPlace Gallery, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Lishui Photo Festival, 13th Yixian Photography Festival, and Huai’an International Photography Museum among others.
Her images have won numerous distinguished awards and honorable mentions in international photography competitions including the Paris Photo Prize, Pollux Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, International Photo Awards (IPA), CENTER top 100, Critical Mass top 200, and the London International Creative Competition. Her work has also been published in Diffusion X, Float Magazine, and Lenscratch.
Images for sale:
Okapi-Endangered 12”H x18”W
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
African Penguin-Endangered 12” W x18” H
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Amur Tiger-Critically Endangered 12” H x18” W
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Bali Myna-Critically Endangered 12” W x18” H
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Peninsular Bighorn Sheep-Endangered 12” W x18” H
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Polar Bear-Vulnerable 12” H x18” W
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Contact: Melissa Lynn
info@melissalynnphoto.com
www.melissalynnphoto.com
www.facebook.com/Melissa.Lynn.Photography.USA
www.instagram.com/melissa_lynn_photography/
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Twenty-eight percent of assessed species are threatened with extinction due to climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and poaching. I utilize the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List to determine which plants and animals are considered vulnerable, endangered, and critically endangered.
My art process illustrates our deteriorating and polluted world through experimental techniques applied to my own photographs. The series also emphasizes conservation efforts and our interrelationship with nature. My hope is that there will be transformative changes through collective action to conserve the earth for present and future generations."
After more than a decade in New York City working as a documentary and portrait photographer for numerous publications, Melissa now lives in Colorado where she continues to pursue her artistic passions as a photographer and digital artist. Her current series respond to historic events and defining issues of our time.
Melissa’s photographs have been exhibited
in many prestigious galleries and museums across the United States and around the world including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Griffin Museum of Photography@WinCam, Fotonostrum Gallery, Colorado State Capitol Building, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Millepiani Gallery, Lone Tree Arts Center, PhotoPlace Gallery, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Lishui Photo Festival, 13th Yixian Photography Festival, and Huai’an International Photography Museum among others.
Her images have won numerous distinguished awards and honorable mentions in international photography competitions including the Paris Photo Prize, Pollux Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, International Photo Awards (IPA), CENTER top 100, Critical Mass top 200, and the London International Creative Competition. Her work has also been published in Diffusion X, Float Magazine, and Lenscratch.
Images for sale:
Okapi-Endangered 12”H x18”W
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
African Penguin-Endangered 12” W x18” H
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Amur Tiger-Critically Endangered 12” H x18” W
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Bali Myna-Critically Endangered 12” W x18” H
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Peninsular Bighorn Sheep-Endangered 12” W x18” H
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Polar Bear-Vulnerable 12” H x18” W
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back
Contact: Melissa Lynn
info@melissalynnphoto.com
www.melissalynnphoto.com
www.facebook.com/Melissa.Lynn.Photography.USA
www.instagram.com/melissa_lynn_photography/
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ENIGMATIC IGUANAS by Vicky Stromee
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
Curator Fran Forman says, "These reptilian creatures look so human!"
Vicky Stromee says, "Deep nights, dreaming in caves, the formless realms of unconsciousness and shadow: this is where creativity is born.
These images come from two series of photo-illustrations for children’s picture books; seeing artistic visions of creatures can help bring home the message that children can embrace their appearance, that difference is good, and that relationships can be navigated with confidence.
One book is about a young penguin who's never experienced the darkness and her search to discover the meaning of the long night; the other about is about the diversity of creatures of the Galapagos. For each finished work, I layer elements from photographs taken in Antarctica and the Galapagos to combine creatures and atmospheric patterns in evocative juxtaposition. Some finished images suggest intimacy; others evoke a sense of separation, solitude, loneliness, or aggression.
The Koo series from Antarctica was selected for inclusion in Communication Arts Photography Annual in 2022.
All images are for sale:
Challenger
Beak Bump
Koo and the Spirit Guide
Let’s Eat Snow
Enigmatic Iguanas
By the Light of the Moon
11”H x 14”W
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Open edition
Signed on back
Contact: Vicky Stromee
vstromee@msn.com
www.vickystromeephotography.com
www.instagram.com/vickystromeephotography
Vicky Stromee says, "Deep nights, dreaming in caves, the formless realms of unconsciousness and shadow: this is where creativity is born.
These images come from two series of photo-illustrations for children’s picture books; seeing artistic visions of creatures can help bring home the message that children can embrace their appearance, that difference is good, and that relationships can be navigated with confidence.
One book is about a young penguin who's never experienced the darkness and her search to discover the meaning of the long night; the other about is about the diversity of creatures of the Galapagos. For each finished work, I layer elements from photographs taken in Antarctica and the Galapagos to combine creatures and atmospheric patterns in evocative juxtaposition. Some finished images suggest intimacy; others evoke a sense of separation, solitude, loneliness, or aggression.
The Koo series from Antarctica was selected for inclusion in Communication Arts Photography Annual in 2022.
All images are for sale:
Challenger
Beak Bump
Koo and the Spirit Guide
Let’s Eat Snow
Enigmatic Iguanas
By the Light of the Moon
11”H x 14”W
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Open edition
Signed on back
Contact: Vicky Stromee
vstromee@msn.com
www.vickystromeephotography.com
www.instagram.com/vickystromeephotography
ANIMALS-DRAGON AND REEF by Suzi Moore McGregor
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
Curator Fran Forman says, "Dragon and Reef Suggests how we can happily share our lives with other creatures, even imaginary ones."
Suzi Moore McGregor says, "My career started when I was seven and entered an art contest. I won an Alexander doll and art classes. I found my niche and never looked back. Photography just became an off-shoot, another means of expressing myself, making connections, and therapy. I’m hoping my photos convey a sense of past and contemporary history, a record of sorts, of mankind and what is happening to our planet. Awareness is the beginning to kindness and hopefully empathy."
WORK FOR SALE-
Dinosaurs Can Be Friends 9"x12"
archival paper
$275. unframed
open edition
signed in recto
Birds Have Feelings 9"x12"
archival paper
$275. unframed
open edition
signed in recto
Chickens in Love 8.313"x12"
archival paper
$275. unframed
open edition
signed in verso
Contact Suzi Moore McGregor
Suzi Moore McGregor says, "My career started when I was seven and entered an art contest. I won an Alexander doll and art classes. I found my niche and never looked back. Photography just became an off-shoot, another means of expressing myself, making connections, and therapy. I’m hoping my photos convey a sense of past and contemporary history, a record of sorts, of mankind and what is happening to our planet. Awareness is the beginning to kindness and hopefully empathy."
WORK FOR SALE-
Dinosaurs Can Be Friends 9"x12"
archival paper
$275. unframed
open edition
signed in recto
Birds Have Feelings 9"x12"
archival paper
$275. unframed
open edition
signed in recto
Chickens in Love 8.313"x12"
archival paper
$275. unframed
open edition
signed in verso
Contact Suzi Moore McGregor
email: sjmcgregor@msn.com
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