Honorable Mention
French Impressions No. 1
DESCRIPTION
Inkjet printStatement:
I visited France for the first time during the summer of 2014, much of it in the in the Luberon Valley in the far south. And like the typical photographer-tourist I took many pictures during my two week stay. Digital photography lulls its practitioners into a state of endless acquisition. There is a sense, at least to me, of freedom from financial restraint. It costs no more to take a hundred photos than to take three. The cost comes later when you try to make sense and order of all the images you have made.
This work is the result of a personal process to make one image depict an entire experience. An experience comprised of sights, sounds, colors, textures, events, people, landscape, etc. One photo doesn't feel like enough to represent the sense I have of a place, time, and event. I am also looking for balance, harmony, and beauty. And I suppose mystery. Perhaps I am subconsciously trying to recreate dream imagery. Or an image that points to another reality or dimension. Surrealism is not the end goal of this work, but it is a part of it.
AUTHOR
Kent Krugh is a fine art photographer, living and working in Cincinnati, OH. Krugh has been featured in numerous exhibitions both national and international, at Cincinnati galleries and art centers; the Houston Center for Photography, TX; the Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO; the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY; Panopticon Gallery, Boston; the Minneapolis Photo Center, MN; RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA; in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Medellín, Colombia; and in major festivals: the Fringe Festival in Cincinnati (2010); the FotoFest Biennal in Houston, TX (2012 and 2016); the FotoFocus Biennal (2012), Cincinnati, OH; Festival de la Luz (2016) Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Yixian Photography Festival (2017), Huangshan City, China. Krugh was a Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist in 2012, 2014, and 2017. Krugh’s work is held in the collections of the Luz Austral Foundation, Buenos Aires; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; the Portland Art Museum; the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Cleveland Institute of Art, OH; the Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH; and the Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX. 