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Opening at Cafe Gutenberg :: SWAIL :: Images by Ian M. Graham
Posted by: Ian – Sep 07, 2009
SWAIL
Images by Ian M. Graham
Show opens Wednesday the 9th of September at Six in the evening.
Swailing, better known as controlled burning or a hazard reduction burn, is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement. The artist applies the term here to a host of activities wherein a person participates in events that are therapeutic to the specific participant, but would seem unconventional, chaotic, antisocial or even potentially criminal to those unfamiliar with the lifestyle the artist & those he keeps close choose. Some of the images are of events in which the artist was an active participant, others, only a documentarian. About half of the images were taken within the city limits of Richmond, Virginia, however the range spans from coast to coast. All images were made with available light unless otherwise noted.
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Ian M. Graham has been making pictures his entire life. Raised by an avid photographer, his first lessons were in the principles of optics & how light moves through lenses, using a field view camera. Continuing this tradition, he has taught photography at the Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts, and privately. He now shoots with a digital camera and a variety of lenses. Some of his favorite photographers are Nan Goldin, Robert Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Kenedy, Kimberly Frost, and his father, to whose life and memory this presentation is dedicated.
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