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What: Jeff G. Stephens Photography Gallery Show
When: August 9th, 5:30-7:30pm Artwalk opening, display through the month of August
Where: Cite des Arts, 109 Vine Street Downtown Lafayette off of Jefferson Street
Jeff
G. Stephens is a photographer born and raised outside of Alexandria,
Louisiana. He got his first camera at around ten years of age and
learned to take basic photos using a variety of the small 110 and
automatic 35mm film cameras of the 1980s and early 1990s. One of his
main dreams and interests from an early age was to learn film and video
production, but cameras and editing equipment weren’t available to the
average rural Louisiana kid in those days, long before relatively
affordable and accessible digital video had hit the scene.
After
taking his first 35mm black and white photography class in college, he
decided to make the jump to video and film and eventually made his way
to the film program at the University of New Orleans. Serious health
issues and Hurricane Katrina disrupted his life and work in New Orleans,
and he found himself back in rural central Louisiana starting over from
scratch. His video and editing gear had been ruined in the New Orleans
flood, and central Louisiana was not the hub for film, video, and
television production that New Orleans was.
Away from the
film industry and needing a creative outlet, the arrival of quality
digital cameras and the tools of the digital darkroom rekindled his
interest in photography. His interest and passion grew, and around 2013,
he began to see fine art photography as more than just a hobby. Still
photography is where his heart lies now, due to the level of control and
individual artistic freedom that he didn’t feel was possible in the
film and video industry. He finally began showing and selling his work
and entering national exhibitions at the end of 2013 and has lived and
breathed photography every day since. Always learning, improving, and
creatively experimenting, his current interests are landscape, urban
landscape, long-exposure nightscapes, and astrophotography. Creative
experimentation has recently led him to the relatively new artistic
technique of photo encaustic - the application of encaustic medium
(beeswax and damar resin) over printed photos in order to add texture
and create a more artistic feel, transforming a photo into a one of a
kind piece of art.
Image Credit: Cite des Arts
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