Final Regular Competition This Wednesday, April 1
Our final regular competition of the season is this Wednesday, April 1, 2015
The assigned subject for April is Balloons.
Print submissions are accepted until 7:15 pm the evening of the competition. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30pm.
Our judges for this evening will be:
Lisa Cuscuna
Lisa Cuscuna is a graduate of The Cooper Union in New York. A video artist and photographer for 25 years, her media work is on display in various installations around the world including The American Museum of Natural History in New York, The George Bush Presidential Library in Texas, the Petronas Discovery Center in Kuala Lumpur, and the International Olympic Committee museum in Lausanne Switzerland. For the past ten years, Lisa has dedicated herself to painting and making composite photographic images. Her work has been shown in local art fairs and galleries in the Stamford and Greenwich area. She has won the Best in Category and Best in Show awards for her photography, from Stamford in the Downtown Bedford Arts & Crafts Fair. She is a past President of the Loft Artists Association and now Board member of the LAA as well as the Arts Society of Old Greenwich.
Lisa’s work can be seen at lisacuscuna.net
Lisa is a returning judge for our Club.
Ron Landis
Ron Landis received his BA and MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an Executive Management certificate From Penn State University. He spent 38 years in executive management with international chemical, telecommunications, and drug companies and was a principle at Gemini Consulting. Even before and throughout his business career Ron had a keen interest in photography having had wonderful opportunities to capture exotic images as he traveled the globe for business.
Ron worked in 20 countries on five continents always having a camera on hand. Places such as Japan, China, Malaysia, India, Singapore, Australia, Argentina, Brasil, South Africa, Western Europe and Dubai became realities in his professional career as he used his spare time to ply his skills with a camera.
“As my photography skills improved I resolved to make it a serious study,” Landis said, “and when I retired from a hectic 24/7 schedule, I attended the International Center for Photography (ICP) in New York and the Perfect Picture School of Photography (PPSOP) founded by Bryan Peterson.”
Ron has acquitted himself well in photography contests such as the Annual Earthplace Competition, Connecticut Association of Photographers’ TOPS, New England Camera Club, Council’s annual interclub competition, and was recently selected for the Fairfield Museum’s Images 2011 show juried by internationally acclaimed photographers Stephen Wilkes and Bill Epperidge. His photos have also appeared in Shutterbug Magazine, The Hour Publishing Company newspapers, and several Hearst Communications publications.
Ron was also the Vice President of the Norwalk Camera Club, as well as Chair of the Judges’ Circle, a committee dedicated to the improvement of judging skills that meets once a month throughout the club’s year. Landis has judged photography contests throughout Connecticut and New York.\
He also teaches photography at the Family & Children’s Agency (FCA) in Norwalk, a nonprofit organization dedicated to families and children with special challenges.
Ron comes from an artistic family; his sister has had a great influence on him, as she is an accomplished impressionist painter and formerly a lead designer for a prestigious furniture company. His mother was also an artist and a clothes designer. “Although I had a forty year rebellion with my family’s penchant for art by pursuing a business career,” Landis says,” I’ve come back to the inevitable. It’s impossible to be in a family of artists and not have some of it rub off.”
On June 9th Ron will be the featured artist at River Road Gallery in Wilton with his “Impressions of Weir Farm”, a photography exhibit of a two-year study of Weir Farm National Historic Site. Weir Farm National Historic site is the only unit of the National Park Service in the country dedicated to American painting. This exhibit is in tandem with the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism’s Annual Connecticut Open House Day.
Ron is a returning judge for our Club
And please welcome our judge for the first time at the Stamford Photography Club:
Danielle Coleman
Having spent the greatest days of her life in Montauk, NY, Danielle grew up surrounded by breathtaking landscapes and some of the world’s best photographers. Yet it wasn’t until she sat in her university’s dark room, blowing up a photo of the surf, only to discover that the speck of a man jumping into the waves had lost his shorts, that she was irrevocably hooked on photography.
As a Wilhelmina model, Danielle spent her 30’s in front of the camera, soaking in as much as she could from some of today’s hottest fashion photographers. “It was a constant prayer for good lighting,” she says. “More so in front of the camera than behind it.”
Today Danielle is based out of Old Greenwich, CT and Amagansett, NY – the subjects of many of her photos.
Danielle’s works can be seen at www.daniellecolemanphotography.com
