Yaquina Art Association Artist Show Case, Michael Carr and Ilene Samowitz Photographers, June 22 – July 5 2024
Michael Carr has been a photographer since 1980. His work is centered around the Western states. He has been published hundreds of times in various newspapers and magazines. He has won numerous awards from the national level on down. Michael got his start as a photojournalist, from there he moved towards his passion which is outdoor photography. While getting his degree in photography he also studied wildlife biology as a way to better understand his subjects. Michael has photographed wildlife from Florida to Alaska. His work is in many galleries and shops throughout the country, and he has sold to people all over the world. His wife Mary has become more involved in the photography business the last couple of years since his strokes. Michael grew up in Libby, Montana, where he developed his love of the outdoors. He currently resides on the Oregon coast with his wife Mary.
Ilene Samowitz is a fine art photographer who focuses on the unseen and altered realities including infrared, long exposure, macro, and black/white photography. They believe that printmaking is an important part of the artistic process and prints their work in their studio using fine art papers.
They love to started out shooting landscapes and doing black and white processing in the 80s. They took a composition class in Art Wolf’s living room in 85. Ilene is a scientist, a musician, as well as an artist. Ilene blends all of these aspects of their life in their photography. They were a geophysicist/geologist where their love of waves of all sorts include seismic, sound, light, and ocean and their love of landscape extends to rocks, crystals, and vintage lenses. Ilene is an avid birder and began digiscoping birds and continues to photograph birds as part of their artistic expression. Ilene strongly believes that their photographic art also plays an important part in documenting our too quickly changing landscapes, weather, flora and fauna. Whenever possible they choose to use recycled paper, recycled wood in frames, print on bamboo, and takes this philosophy into the field.
Ilene has been showing their work for decades and has won numerous awards.
May the light be with you!!!
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