Susan Chandler

Ms. Chandler has carried her classic Leica M6 from Siberia to the Skeleton Coast of Southern Africa. From the taiga of Siberia, to the gargoyles that defend Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, to a charging elephant in Namibia, to a fresh lava flow on Kilauea volcano, her photos reflect the ambiguity of objective and subjectivity that is found in all works of art, but her pictures reveal this division with incisive poignancy.

There is a quiet personal rebellion at work in her photos that are more than they outwardly appear to be. Like great music, painting, or poetry they contain a subtext that encourages the viewer to use their own imagination to extend beyond the borders of the print.

Ms. Chandler is committed to traditional photography. She works with complete dedication to the entire process, from capturing “the moment”, developing the film, choosing the exact paper and bringing it all together in the darkroom where the magic happens.

Gordon Lukesh

He has always been fascinated by geometric shapes. He says : “Bonne Chance! is one of my favorite photographs and is truly a luck shot. I was trying to capture the intricate detail of the cobblestones near Montmartre as the sun set, and as I clicked the shutter, a black cat ran across the seen. I had no idea how the cat would appear in the scene until I had the film developed in the United States. The picture is a full negative and completely undoctored!”

His camera of choice is the super quiet Leica M6 and he uses three lenses, a super-wide 21mm, a 50mm and a 135mm. Photographs are taken on black and white film and his personal darkroom produces photographs as large as 11x14, while a professional laboratory produces larger versions. “Working in the darkroom allows me to feel close to the process and have control over my images, and fiber-core paper greatly increases the depth of the images. I am always apprehensive as the images appear during the process!”

Martin Goldman

Whether writing and directing feature films or TV commercials, painting, taking photographs or drawing cartoons he has truly spent his entire life creating. His TV commercials for Coca Cola and Faberge won the bronze lion at the Venice film festival.

His modern day cowboy prints have been given to two American Presidents and his painting “Wyoming is What America was” has been chosen as the official image of the 2008 Democratic Party Convention in Jackson Hole.

His paintings have appeared in Southwest Art magazine and he was a featured artist in Art West Magazine.

Harriet Greene

She moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming and opened an art gallery, backpacked in the Tetons and Wind Rivers and became inspired by the wilderness. Her marble stonecut prints of wildlife, wild flowers & Indian Chief speeches won her numerous awards. The print of “Coyote” and three-dimensional piece “Wyoming Winter” won awards in the Women Artists of the American West competitions.

Her artistic journey led to Taos, New Mexico where she had a one-woman show, then took part in a four-person wildlife show at the Marigold Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, exhibited at the Wild Life Alliance in Albuquerque and the International Museum in El Paso, Texas. She now lives in Taos and is the author of five books.