Bill Yates says, "Curiosity drives me, always has. It is the light and form in my periphery that commands my attention. U-turns and the occasional whiplash are the order of the day. I use whatever’s handy—a pinhole, a Diana, a Hasselblad SWC, a DSLR, or an iPhone—to document, to satisfy my visual curiosity, to see what it looks like photographically. Occasionally I get a “keeper.” It is this constant activity that keeps my eye sharp and my mind wondering."

Bill Yates graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.A. in Art and Photography in 1973 following active duty in the US Navy. Yates received his Master of Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. He also studied with Garry Winogrand as well as other master fine art photographers.

Yates enjoyed a forty year friendship/mentorship with the late painter, sculptor, photographer, and fellow southerner, William Christenberry. Yates is a landscape, documentary, and aerial photographer. 

Yates had a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC in 1975. Photographs from that exhibition were selected by Chief Curator/Associate Director, Jane Livingston and the United States Information Agency (USIA) to be a part of the first cultural exchange to China following President Richard Nixon's 1972 historic visit.

He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to curate and assemble a traveling exhibition of Florida's emerging photographers, was a curatorial consultant for photography to the Corcoran, and served as the director of the University Gallery at New Mexico State University. 

Awards and recent exhibitions (partial): PhotoLucida 2013 Critical Mass Top 50 winner; Sweetheart, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, 2015; THE FENCE 2015, Atlanta & Houston; Bill Yates: Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink 1972 - 1973, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, 2015, and Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, 2016; FAST FORWARD // REWIND, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta, 2017; Landscape & Interventions, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, 2017; Houston Center for Photography, 2017; W|ALL: Defend, Divide, and the Divine, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, 2019; Youthful Adventures, Telfair Museum, Savannah, 2020, Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 2022. 

Collections (partial): Corcoran Gallery of Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; Wellesley College Davis Museum; Do Good Fund, plus numerous private, and institutional collections. 

Yates is now editing fifty plus years of his personal work, and continuing to shoot landscape and documentary photography.

His 2016 book, Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink (Fall Line Press, Atlanta), won the 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Award. A European edition of an updated Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink is currently being edited for a 2024-25 launch.

The Sweetheart Roller Skating Rinkphotographs are the subject of a Stanford University Lecture Course, “American Dream - American Nightmare,” presented by the renowned art historian and author, Alexander Nemerov, Chair of Stanford’s Art and Art History Dept. (2021 - 2023)

IMAGES FOR SALE-

NM_87_004 - 20"H x 20"W
Archival Pigment Print
$750.00 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed en verso


NM_87_049 - 20"H x 20"W
Archival Pigment Print
$750.00 unframed
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Signed en verso


NM_87_110 - 20"H x 20"W
Archival Pigment Print
$750.00 unframed
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NM_87_059 - 20"H x 27"W
Archival Pigment Print
$750.00 unframed
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NM_87_100 - 20"H x 27"W
Archival Pigment Print
$750.00 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed en verso


NM_87_110 - 20"H x 27"W
Archival Pigment Print
$750.00 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed en verso

CONTACT: Bill Yates - byates.photo@gmail.com

www.instagram.com/bill_yates_photo/
https://linktr.ee/billyatesphoto

After dancing all night in a circle we realize that we are a part of a larger sense of stars and planets dancing with us overhead.

When the sun rises at the apex of the ceremony, we are renewed. There is no mistaking this connection, though Walmart might be just down the road.

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.”
From “
Talking with the Sun” by Joy Harjo. 2015

Bonnie Blake says, "As a maker of landscape photographs, I am a witness to both destruction and renewal. Here in
California, I am confronted with the visible effects of climate change in acres of burned forests as well as tree trunks hollowed from destructive pests. I am surrounded by lands that are increasingly vulnerable to invasive species after years of drought. And yet I am reassured by witnessing new growth everywhere — birth and death happening simultaneously in a seemingly
chaotic but magnificent mess of abundance. These scenes have an energy that is magnetic and stimulating.

I feel a sense of wonder when I admire the shapes and lines created by the powerful tectonic forces at work millions of years ago. I am compelled to cherish what mother nature has created.

Observing these places renews my personal spirit of resilience and hopefully my photographs express my reverence as I move beyond my fear about the effects of climate change and move forward to support solutions."

Bonnie Blake is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles with roots in Louisville, Kentucky and New York City. 

She uses a straightforward documentary approach as well as intentional camera movement to create traditional images as well as conceptual collages.  She expresses the serenity and energy she finds in these lands and the delight of the people interacting with these environments. Her belief that beauty can be an agent of change inspires her to express her concern about the destruction of the natural world from climate change.  

Her work has been exhibited in venues including Auburn Gallery, Photo Place Gallery, A. Smith Gallery and the Center for Fine Art Photography as well as Unbound12! at the Candela Gallery.   She won honorable mention in the 2020 Creative Portrait Exhibit at the Los Angeles Center of Photography.  She was awarded honorable mention in the Praxis Gallery 2023 Exhibit entitled “The Artist Intervenes”.  She had an image in the Center for Fine Art Photography in 2024 in their “Wonder” Exhibit and “Words and Text”.  Her work has  been featured in several Lenscratch exhibits including an article in 2021 highlighting her project “Breakfast with the Los Angeles Times”, a document of daily life during the pandemic. 

She has a BA in literature from Vanderbilt University, an M.F.A. in Theatre from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She spent many years in the entertainment industry working as a camera operator on documentaries, features and episodic television.  She studied still photography with Fran Antmann in New York City as well as in classes at the International Center of Photography and the Los Angeles Center of Photography with Aline Smithson, Cig Harvey, Just Loomis, Rania Matar, Lindsay Lochman and Barbara Ciurej.

IMAGES FOR SALE:

A Change in Perspective - 16"H x 20" W
Archival paper
$400 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back

Another Sacrifice - 20"H x 16" W
Archival paper
$400 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back

Endurance of the Grizzly - 16"H x 20" W
Archival paper
$400 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back

Point of Affinity - 20"H x 16" W
Archival paper
$400 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back

Connective Spirits - 16”H x 20”W
Archival paper
$400 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back

Another Scorcher -  16"H x 20" W
Archival paper
$400 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back

Contact: 
Bonnie Blake
bonniesblake@gmail.com

www.bonnieblakephotography.com
www.instagram.com/bonnie.blake.photography

Bremner Benedict says, "Since the beginning of human existence, springs have been key to our survival. Yet today they are all but forgotten. Despite being very small they host some of the richest diversity of plant and animal life on the planet profoundly influencing their vicinity. Called “windows into the earth” springs serve as a barometer of their aquifer’s  quality and durability. 85% of springs have been lost since 1900 due to overuse and drought making them one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems.

Being an artist who is passionate about the water crisis in the West and drawn to their story whose value is so misunderstood for the past 7 years I’ve been photographing springs of all types and conditions in the 5 major deserts of the West. Using a blend of art and science to emphasize springs’ precarious relationship to their surroundings I chose the muted color palette of Western landscape painter, Maynard Dixon to to emphasize their fragility and give them a tangible, evocative reality. 

Springs have survived human and natural onslaughts but now they are vulnerable.  If these biologically diverse, culturally important, and historically rich ecosystems are lost, our ability to live in arid lands will be impacted as well. Yet there is still hope. Where the aquifer hasn’t been too damaged we can restore some springs for both human and natural purposes. By spotlighting those few remaining before they are gone, I want this work to reflect their value and predicament while encouraging a call to action for their protection."

Bremner Benedict’s work centers on the relationship we have with landscape, focusing on the importance of the unseen in our environment.

Benedict’s work is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, corporate and private collections. Selection of solo exhibitions include Clark County Library Las Vegas, NV, Florida Museum of Photographic Art, Tampa, FL, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX. Group exhibitions highlights include PST ART: Art & Science Collide - Out of Site: Science Survey and the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles CA, and Ceding Ground at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.

Recent awards include Project Launch Award, Center Santa Fe, Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist, and Joshua Tree Highlands Residency and Shoshone Artist Residency.

www.bremner-benedict.com
www.instagram.com/bremnerbened

Comments from jurors Debe Arlook and Fred Brashear Jr.:

"Seeing the artist's hand and creating a unique perspective intrigues us. It is readily apparent that the artist spent great contemplation creating this multi-layered photo-based landscape narrative and how this work directly aligns with our theme. We are curious about the intentions behind the various techniques employed, the colors of thread and tape used by the artist, and who your influences are. The potent mixture and layers of thriving and decomposing landscapes with mixed media create a strong narrative about the state of our planet. Congratulations to the maker!"

Donna Bassin says of her series Environmental Melancholia, "These are a series of photo-based landscapes in response to the environmental crisis and the psychological impact of our changing landscape. These images witness Earth’s vulnerability and losses of land, animal, and plant life.  Inspired by the histories of landscape painting, the photographs are idyllic at first glance, but closer looks disrupt the sublime, unsettle perceptions that our natural world is ongoing as usual, and visually transform traditional topographies and expected landscapes.

The new surfaces created ask viewers to question what they see. Each constructed landscape comprises two layered images from different locations. I physically layer one photograph onto another, linking the two through a color relationship or composition, for example, a mountain’s curve to a line in a stream, and attach them with photo corners, Japanese Washi mending tape, or embroidery thread. I name the longitude and latitude of each, erasing geopolitical borders, creating a global narrative, and underscoring the responsibility and collective stewardship we share for the land. In some images, photo corners recollect a past practice and hint at a hypothetical future in which the remnants of our natural world exist only as distant memories reminiscent of nostalgic postcards from a vanishing past. In others, as Earth is devastated and we lose fertile land, animals, birds, rivers, trees, and glaciers, I tear natural resources from one photographic scene and transfer them to a depleted landscape image, enacting a reparative process of injury and restoration.

Donna Bassin is a photo-based artist, filmmaker, clinical psychologist, educator, and published author born in Brooklyn, New York, and now living in New Jersey. Her long-term projects respond to harmful aspects of contemporary life: post-traumatic stress, racism, social injustice, and, recently, the destruction of our environment. She received a 2024 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant and a 2021 New Jersey Council on the ArtsFellowship for photography, was a Finalist in Critical Mass 2023, and was one of the Top 50 Photographers for Critical Mass 2022.
 
Environmental Melancholia, her series illuminating and aiding the community in grappling with the complexities of the climate crisis, was recently in Groundingat Ki Smith Gallery, Double Exposure and Two By Two Media at the Carter Burden Gallery, and The Fat Canary in Ceres Gallery in New York. The series has been recognized in Critical Mass 2023 and 2022 and was featured in the accompanying exhibition, Imminent Existence, at Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle. Other notable group inclusions have been Klompching Gallery’s FRESH 2022, Montclair Art Museum’s Inspired by George Inness: Life and Landscape, and Jersey City’s Art Fair 14C. It has been featured in several publications and periodicals, including Overlapse’s Stir the Pot, The HAND Magazine, Borderline Press’s Facsimile, Dodho Magazine, Vostok Magazine, Analog Forever Magazine, FLOAT Magazine, LandEscape Art Review, and LifeFramer Magazine. A solo exhibition is planned for Winter 2025 at the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island.
 
Her portrait series, My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair, is now on view as a solo exhibit at Mira Forum in Porto, Portugal. The series was also exhibited in 2023 at the Espaço D’Artes Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal, the Soho Photo Gallery in New York, and the Passaic County Arts Center in New Jersey. It was recently featured in Picturing the Constitution at The Old Stone House of Brooklyn. A film adaptation of this series will be included in New Jersey Arts Annual: Exploring Our Connections at the Montclair Art Museum in Fall 2024. It has been highlighted in multiple publications, including Portugal’s PsiRelacional, Fotonostrum Magazine, Grazia Magazine, One Twelve Publishing, Aint-Bad Magazine, and Lens Magazine.
 
By Our Own Hand, a collaboration with New Jersey’s Frontline Arts, was shown at the Montclair Art Museum. Precious Scars, another photo-based installation, was exhibited at the Jamestown Arts Center in Rhode Island. Other installations have appeared at the Newark Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, SaveArtSpace, and Mills Reservation. Donna has directed and produced two award-winning, feature-length documentaries about coming home from war: Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After. The Afterlife of Dolls, a solo exhibition at Montclair Art Museum, was featured on PBS’ State of the Arts.
 
IMAGES FOR SALE:

Precarious Places.8 - 24" H x 35" W
Archival pigment print, rice paper, Sashiko embroidery thread
$1500 (unframed)
Limited edition of 5
Signed on front


Precarious Places.27
Archival pigment print, rice paper, Sashiko embroidery thread
$1500 (unframed)
Limited edition of 5
Signed on front


Precarious Places.41
Archival pigment print, rice paper, MT Washi tape
$1500 (unframed)
Limited edition of 5
Signed on front


Precarious Places.47
Archival pigment print, rice paper, MT Washi tape
$1500 (unframed)
Limited edition of 5
Signed on front


Precarious Places.77
Archival pigment print, rice paper, Sashiko embroidery thread
$1500 (unframed)
Limited edition of 5
Signed on front


Precarious Places.78
Archival pigment print, rice paper, Sashiko embroidery thread
$1500 (unframed)
Limited edition of 5
Signed on front

Contact: Donna Bassin, dibassin@gmail.com

www.donnabassin.com
www.instagram.com/p1nhole.donnabassin

Edward Lance Montgomery says of his series,"Kinetic Ambiguity Project, Land Series, Vistas Segment", “I get a euphoric sense as I engage a mental escape mechanism from the real world around me when I look at this work, my Kinetic Ambiguity Project.  

Using a lot of camera movement with long exposures, I try to make it easy to see the purposeful blurring in my images.  I do this to create the illusion of moving much faster than I actually am.  The blurring, along with my style of digital postproduction, creates these fantastical works.  

Joshua Trees, power lines, mountainous horizons, center pivot irrigations systems, and others, make up the principal characters in this story I'm telling about the high desert – in particular, the south-western edge of the Mojave Desert.  

The view is mostly from the roads between the Antelope Valley and the Victor Valley.  

The Land Series is my interpretation of landscape photography.  The Vistas Segment of the Land Series is primarily horizon views with a large helping of foreground and background.  I hope you enjoy chapter one as much as I do.”

Edward Lance Montgomery wants to share his creations of manipulated light with you. His passion? Photographic art rendered with his signature post-production formula, creating unique and engaging yet still familiar pieces. The image making process is especially personal for him as he photographs these works in a moving vehicle. This began for him back in 2003 while he served in the Army during the war, on his last deployment to Iraq. 

Being how he couldn’t simply stop his convoy to take pictures, he would take pictures while on the move – hip shots or “no look” shots, if you will. Initially, the blurry images were culled from the “good” ones, but the blur intrigued him. 

He never stopped experimenting with blurry images, not even during his undergraduate studies as a studio art major, though he kept this work to himself. 

The project wouldn’t even get a name until 2013 – the Kinetic Ambiguity Project. Now, you would be hard pressed to find him doing anything else.
Edward has participated in art exhibitions, written art reviews, curated art shows, and has work in the Target Corporation collection. 

He is a 2014 honors graduate of California State University, San Bernardino with a BA in studio art (concentration photography) and a minor in business administration. 

By way of a 20-year military career, Edward has lived around the world, but has since returned to his home state of California. He currently lives in the high desert city of Victorville.

IMAGES FOR SALE:

Kinetic Ambiguity 65549, 20" x 45"
The printer uses enamel coated aluminum to print on.  The prints have a slightly satin, nearly matte finish, and are printed on a UV flatbed printer using pigment inks.  
$4620.00 
Limited edition of 10 with 2 artist proofs
Signed on back


Kinetic Ambiguity 66008, 20" x 45"
The printer uses enamel coated aluminum to print on.  The prints have a slightly satin, nearly matte finish, and are printed on a UV flatbed printer using pigment inks.  
$4620.00 
Limited edition of 10 with 2 artist proofs
Signed on back


Kinetic Ambiguity 66036, 20" x 45"
The printer uses enamel coated aluminum to print on.  The prints have a slightly satin, nearly matte finish, and are printed on a UV flatbed printer using pigment inks.  
$4620.00 
Limited edition of 10 with 2 artist proofs
Signed on back


Kinetic Ambiguity 87665, 20" x 45"
The printer uses enamel coated aluminum to print on.  The prints have a slightly satin, nearly matte finish, and are printed on a UV flatbed printer using pigment inks.  
$4620.00 
Limited edition of 10 with 2 artist proofs
Signed on back


Kinetic Ambiguity 113296, 20" x 45"
The printer uses enamel coated aluminum to print on.  The prints have a slightly satin, nearly matte finish, and are printed on a UV flatbed printer using pigment inks.  
$4620.00 
Limited edition of 10 with 2 artist proofs
Signed on back


Kinetic Ambiguity 113959, 20" x 45"
The printer uses enamel coated aluminum to print on.  The prints have a slightly satin, nearly matte finish, and are printed on a UV flatbed printer using pigment inks.  
$4620.00 
Limited edition of 10 with 2 artist proofs
Signed on back

Contact: Edward Lance Montgomery, 
ELMPhoto.FA@gmail.com

https://elmpfineart.com/
https://www.instagram.com/elmp_kap

Ellen Jantzen says, "I create work that bridges the world of photography, prints and collage. Lately, I have been exploring the realm of one’s environmental surroundings, how it is absorbed into one’s psyche and how this changes through relocations.

A new environment can bring both delight and a fear of the unknown. How does one
grow into feeling at home? How does one visually capture the essence while at the
same time striving to understand? Add to that a landscape (the American West) that is fraught with cliché, and I find myself desiring to bring my new home into focus, to make it my own."

Commissions include: The New Mexico University Hospital, new addition in board room Los Angeles Billboard Creative, on Fairfax Ave. West Hollywood In the Art Collection of The University of Iowa Hospital In the Art Collection of the New Mexico History Museum New Mexico Arts, Art in Public Places 2015: 13th Judicial Court in Los Lunas Explora in Albuquerque Inez Elementary in Albuquerque In the Art Collection of Stanford University, School of Medicine In the Art Collection of the Microsoft Corporation Condo project in Toronto Canada, various hotels including the Southfield Weston and the Ithica Marriot. Eight large pieces for the New Dubai Opera House Large Billboard-sized Outdoor piece installed at Allied PhotoColor Multiple pieces installed at Olmsted Restaurant, Atlanta Georgia by the Alan Avery Art Company.

Awards include: SERIES WINNER in the Digital Manipulation and Collage category in the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards!!! For my series: Mid + West Dreaming NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS, New Mexico State Committee chose me for their "Artist Spotlight" for the month of February Lectures i3 (Ideas, Images, Inspiration) lecture series I spoke and showed my work (January 11, 2022) at the School of Visual Arts NYC. This was a Zoom presentation. 
Invitational Exhibitions.

The landscape show, "Creating Land" opened in Pingyao, China on September 19th. It is wonderful to know that nine of my pieces were shown. The show was perceived very well and was put in place number one, the best spot of the festival. The event in Pingyao is the biggest of its kind in China with usually 400 exhibitions of roughly 2000 photographers and 20 000 images.

THE PINGYAO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL opened September 19th. Thanks to Alasdair Foster who curated the "Why" exhibition. Staged within the ancient walled city of Pingyao in Shanxi Province (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) PIP is China’s largest and longest-running photography festival. It is held annually for one intensive week from 19–25 September and is said to attract some 200,000 visitors.  

IMAGES FOR SALE:

Barrier Relief - 12”H x 18”W
Dye Sublimation on matte Aluminum
$900 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
Signed on back


Cloud Beam - 12”H x 18”W
Dye Sublimation on matte Aluminum
$900 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
Signed on back


Ghost Ranch Revisited - 12”H x 18”W
Dye Sublimation on matte Aluminum
$900 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
Signed on back


Off Road- 12”H x 18”W
Dye Sublimation on matte Aluminum
$900 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
Signed on back


On Cloud Nine- 12”H x 18”W
Dye Sublimation on matte Aluminum
$900 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
Signed on back


Range of Vision - 12”H x 18”W
Dye Sublimation on matte Aluminum
$900 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
Signed on back
Contact: Ellen Jantzen ellenjantzen@mac.com

www.ellenjantzen.com
www.instagram.com/ellenjantzen/

Jane Gottleib says, "I have been expressing my joy of art with paint, shapes and colors since I was very young.  I began as a painter, evolved into a photographer,
and eventually began painting on individual photographic prints over thirty years ago.  I hand painted vivid colors on my Cibachrome prints, creating a wonderful new reality.  Now I scan my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints, enhance, paint and combine them with Photoshop and my imagination.

“Color is luscious to me.  It’s a luxury to be able to fill my life with vivid color.  

Color is energy; it evokes emotions and feelings.  

It’s the other side of intellectual, and it makes you feel good—it really does pick 
you up, and makes you smile.”

My art has been exhibited worldwide in many solo exhibitions: 
UCSB AD&A Museum, Butler Institute of American Art; Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, CA; Laguna Art Museum. CA; Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA;  
LA County Museum of Natural History, CA; Monterey Museum of Art, CA; Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City; 
L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy. 

I have been included in countless group exhibits over the last 30 years, and collected by museums, foundations, corporations and individuals worldwide.  

Many magazine articles, magazine and book covers, two museum exhibition catalogues and two books have been published of my art, Garden Tales and Car Tales.

www.janegottlieb.com

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