Ric Johnson

“After more then 30 years of concentrating on the art of black & white photography, I still find myself amazed at the depth, richness and beauty, which can be achieved within 10 shades of gray.

While my work has moved through various stages & venues, I find I’ve returned to "straight" photographic techniques. My prints tend to focus on themes that show the effects of time within our environment. Not as a comment on our place in time, but as a record of the unalterable consequences of time; whether it's nature or man-made, everything must, and does, give way to it. I treat each scene not as a documentary, but as a portrait, with the resulting photograph printed as accurately and faithfully as possible. I shoot 35mm, medium format and large format cameras with or without a lens (pinhole), film only.

All my photographs are printed on silver gelatin fiver based photographic paper with archival processing and selenium toning and are 11 x 14 or larger. My prints have been in numerous shows and bought by many collectors.”

Ric teaches black & white photography, darkroom and pinhole photography at Edina Art Center.
 

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