Buckhead residents Ed Garcia and Nathan Dean share a passion for pictures, but they just about every took a lifetime to obtain it. Their exhibition, “Two Aged Men With Cameras” will be on exhibit at the Buckhead Library from April 2 as a result of May 29, 2022, with an opening reception on April 9. The exhibition showcases the photographers’ differing techniques to photographing individuals. In easiest conditions, Nathan says, “I shoot road portraits. [Ed] shoots human interactions.”
Ed Garcia
Garcia suggests he’s not pushing 93, but, “maybe just leaning up from it.” Ed experienced a effective profession as a psychotherapist, including a position as co-director of training at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City. He and his wife frequented around 40 nations, and Ed would record their travels with his digital camera. Ed did not set a great deal thought into the craft of it, and he claims, “I experienced taken images, but I by no means believed that what I took was photography. I was just having pictures.”
When he retired, Ed took up a unique type of inventive expression. Some people may possibly get a portray course or acquire up pottery, but Ed started to generate metal sculptures! The greatest example of his get the job done is a 15-foot 5,000-pound piece named Pathways to Wisdom that is put in on the Kennesaw State University campus. Metallic perform grew to become far too difficult as Ed acquired older, so he started to check out other creative retailers. Nathan Dean saw guarantee in Ed’s photos and inspired him to go after his pictures much more seriously.
Nathan Dean
Nathan strategies images from a entirely diverse angle. He loved producing images from a young age, and he constantly had a, “good eye.” Nathan found considerably less time for his pastime as he received older and entered the workforce. His vocation as a physicist, university professor, dean, and vice president remaining little time for images. Like Ed, Nathan would take images on his travels, but did not pursue any really serious pictures.
Nathan’s daughter wanted to give him a present when he retired. She is an artist, and she believed it would be good if the two of them could attend a pictures workshop collectively. That 7 days adjusted all the things for Nathan. He commenced to fully grasp what it meant to have a “good eye,” and he begun his critical research of images. Nathan dove into the specialized concepts of images and modifying, and eventually commenced educating images himself. At this stage, Nathan’s photographs have been highlighted in a lot of exhibitions all over the country.
Doing work Jointly
Ed offers a large amount of credit history to Nathan for inspiring his images. He instructed me, “Nathan was in a position to say, ‘wait a minute, this composition is fantastic.’ And ‘look at the expression of that child.’ All of a unexpected I commenced finding out from him that perhaps, unconsciously I was capable to do these types of points.” I feel these of us who show up at the “Two Old Men With Cameras” exhibition are lucky that Ed and Nathan achieved and turned good friends. Their distinctive types and strengths have motivated each and every other’s work, and put together to make a attractive collection of photographs.