Thanks for the tip Steve.

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600 Sandy Lane
Warwick, RI 02889
401 739-5440

“The Museum of Work and Culture located at Market Square 42 South Main Street, Woonsocket, RI is hosting an exhibition by members of the Photographic Society of Rhode Island displaying the diverse works of some of the area’s finest local photographers. The photographs capture the beauty of fauna, flora, people, landscapes and abstracts of Southern New England, around the country and across the world. The Gallery Opening is Sunday Nov. 13th from 1-3 pm. The exhibit will be on display through January 15th during normal museum hours.”

The Members in the exhibit are

For operating hours, visit the Newport Art Museum Web site.

Asking for Your Support in a Contest

One of the magazines I published using MagCloud, Hagia Sophia Experience is in a contest sponsored by the printing company. The contest is held on facebook and the winner will be determined by facebook member votes. Each facebook member can vote once every day until December 17, 2011 when the contest voting will close. I will greatly appreciate if you have a facebook account and visit the following link once a day and click on “Vote for this entry” red bar below my Hagia Sophia photograph. If you bookmark that page, you can quickly get to it to vote.

Should the entry be the winner, I will make its digital copy available for anyone to download from my site. Thank you for your support in advance (don’t forget to vote once a day, every day!)

Vote for Hagia Sophia Experience on facebook (you must have an account there and logged in.)

139 Main Street
Norfolk, MA 02056

I received the following from Angelnook Gallery in Cranston, an interesting photography exhibit.

Dear Members of PSRI,

I am writing to you from Angelnook Gallery in Cranston. We represent two photographers that may be of interest to your members.

The first is Alexander Caltenco, a photographer from Hawaii that has combined his two passions: travel and photography. He travels the world searching for the perfect shot. Each of his images has a story of an adventure behind it.

The second is Frantisek Strouhal. Frantisek uses a 4×5 camera to photograph is subjects and then prints them using the 19th and early 20th century processes of Bromoil and Oil Printing. These may be of particular interest to your members as there are very few people using this process today.

Just in case you have not heard of these process (as I had not, until meeting Frantisek), it is very involved. After photographing his subjects with his 4×5 camera, he creates a large paper negative, digitally, for contact printing purposes. He sensitizes water color paper and exposes it to UV light. The solution on the paper is hardened based on the proportion of light passing through the negative. The highlights harden, while the shadows do not. Upon washing and drying the print, it is ready to be inked using lithographic ink. The hardened areas reject the ink, while the soft areas absorb. Slowly, layer by layer, the ink is built up. This process can take days, weeks, and months, depending on the size of the print.

Bromoil is a very similar process to the oil print. Instead of sensitizing the paper with a hardening solution, it uses a silver bromide coating for sensitization. The paper is then exposed similarly, but before inking can begin, the print is bleached, fixed, and then soaked in water. The highlights absorb more water than the shadows. Once excess water is removed from the print, the bromoilist may start inking. As with oil printing, the highlights reject the ink, as they are swollen with water and the shadows absorb the ink. The layers of ink must be built up slowly and can also take a significant amount of time.

We are having a two part event on Thursday, November 10 that would be an excellent time to visit the gallery. From 3-5 pm, we will have an event for the elementary age children of the surrounding area. Artist Kim Grenier will be facilitating a drawing class where children will have the opportunity to draw their own interpretation of an angel and discuss it with their classmates. There will be face painting and snacks provided, as well as all who attend will be given a free bookmark.

In the evening, from 5-8 pm, we will be having a reception. We will have a silent auction and portion of the proceeds will benefit Toys for Tots. There will be opportunities to meet with the artists and refreshments will be provided. Any donations that guests bring for Toys for Tots will be greatly appreciated.

If you are unable to attend this event, please feel free to visit us another time. We are open 10-6 Tuesday-Sunday and are located at 1591 Cranston St. Cranston, RI. I look forward to having PSRI at Angelnook Gallery in the near future!

Warm Regards,

Shilah Marshman

Shilah A. Marshman
Assistant Manager
Angelnook Gallery
phone: 401-228-6680
fax: 401-275-6022
www.angelnookgallery.com

The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans
October 1, 2011 through January 29, 2012

Florence Griswold Museum
96 Lyme Street
Old Lyme, CT 06371
860-434-5542

Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 5; Sunday 1 – 5

Congratulations Steve.