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Group
Objectives The members of the Triangle Black and White Photography Group are photographers in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina who love the traditional arts of film photography and the chemical darkroom. We are dedicated to improving our work by sharing skills and knowledge in an informal atmosphere. Group members include professional photographers, teachers, and skilled amateurs. as well as some intermediate level darkroom workers We meet in the evening of the third Tuesday of each month from September to June excluding December. Currently we meet near the south-eastern edge of Chapel Hill. Our meetings are devoted to sharing our photographs, our critiques of each others’ work and our knowledge of our art and its craft. We present both work-in-progress or finished prints at the meetings and receive comments and suggestions about both the aesthetic and craft aspects of the prints. The comments are always civil and constructive, but they are also honest. Our members process their own film and prints in conventional black and white, chemical darkrooms. We often discuss ways to improve exposure, development and printing and explore to increase our abilities create the “fine print.” From time to time we schedule a presentation by one of our club members or an outside speaker, on a topic of particular interest. Digital photographs and prints are not shown or discussed. Most members bring several prints to a meeting. Prints are reviewed one at a time, proceeding through the group in a round-robin fashion. Sometimes people will bring re-worked prints to a meeting and then it is helpful to show the earlier version as well the new print. Otherwise, each person shows one print at a time. Part way through the meeting we will take care of any business necessary (for example, we may discuss plans for a group show) and then quickly return to showing and discussing prints We arrange a few group shows of our photography each year. The Group has exhibited members' work regularly at museums, galleries and other venues throughout the Triangle area. These are restricted to work printed by the photographer. The Group does not favor any particular type of photography other than our focus on black and white photographs made by the photographer in the chemical darkroom. The Group's work often reflects a common desire to isolate subject matter from the visual clutter around us. This allows the viewer to concentrate on the shapes and relationships among shapes that the photographer found important or attractive or interesting. The tones of a black and white print interact with the shapes to enhance this isolation and to reveal something that, otherwise, might have gone unnoticed. Regardless of the style or subject matter, members of The Triangle Black and White Photography Group share a belief that a well-crafted black and white print is beautiful in its own right as is evident from the prints the Group exhibits. |