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Posted on September 23, 2018

On the Water in Southeast Asia
Lawrence Manning
September 23 – December 2, 2018
Village
© Lawrence Manning
Man in a canoe
© Lawrence Manning
Two men in a boat on water
© Lawrence Manning

Bamboo fences
© Lawrence Manning
Man
© Lawrence Manning
Man in a weir
© Lawrence Manning

Man, boat,weir
© Lawrence Manning
House, water sunset
© Lawrence Manning
2 people in a motor boat
© Lawrence Manning

Abstract
© Lawrence Manning
Fleet of boats
© Lawrence Manning
Asian boat
© Lawrence Manning

Asian boat
© Lawrence Manning
Abstract
© Lawrence Manning
Abstract
© Lawrence Manning

Boat on water
© Lawrence Manning
Selling vegetables from a boat
© Lawrence Manning
Selling vegetables from a boat
© Lawrence Manning

Selling vegetables from a boat
© Lawrence Manning
Asian woman
© Lawrence Manning
Asian woman
© Lawrence Manning

Asian boat
© Lawrence Manning
Asian woman
© Lawrence Manning
Abstract
© Lawrence Manning

Junk
© Lawrence Manning
Weir
© Lawrence Manning
River scene
© Lawrence Manning

River scene
© Lawrence Manning
River scene
© Lawrence Manning
River scene
© Lawrence Manning

Lawrence Manning – Photographer
Griffin Museum of Photography – Critic

Artist Statement
My first trip to Southeast Asia in April 2018 found me attracted to the symbiotic life and culture of the rivers, lakes, and ocean bays of Vietnam and Cambodia. I have been rendering these captures  mostly as references or sketches to create dreamy, evocative spaces and places that transform the viewers sense of location and reality. Anonymity and references to painting are important to the mood I am attempting to convey. The alterations and enhancements, the manipulations of color and form add to the emotional response I am seeking from the viewer. There is often no consideration to reveal the content as it was.

This approach has carried over to a body of evolving work “Murder,” a yearly  annoying  invasion of crows in the town where I live, into an artistic, whimsical body of work. (A flock of crows is referred to as a “murder.” )

With my discovery of Instagram a year ago,   I have been excited to dig deeper into the art/photo universe and I gratefully receive inspiration on a daily basis from other artists who excite me. My Instagram presence features many of the subjects I love.

Bio
Lawrence Manning’s personal and professional goals and life changed when he served as a Peace Corps English teacher and independent educational media consultant in Africa from 1969 through 1976. Not only did his entire global view and perception shift, but he passionately  fell in love with taking pictures. 

In 1976 he returned to the United States and was fortunate to be hired as a staff photographer at a fortune 500 company. He learned a great deal of his craft and knowledge while on the job making technical images as well as working with portraiture and journalistic news within the company.

By 1983 he opened his own freelance business and became intensely involved and  invested in the early days of stock photography while pursuing commercial work.  This business eventually evolved into Hill Street Studios, a full time commercial media production studio.

In 2004, HSS with 21 other major producers of stock imagery formed Blend Images, the first stock agency dedicated to producing ethnic business and lifestyle imagery. His commercial and stock   images have appeared virtually everywhere in the world from small marketing campaigns to large scale advertising campaigns. 

By 2016, the photography world had changed. With the evolution of the internet, the ubiquity of everyone being a photographer, and the saturation of stock photography, business declined and  he began to seek projects that would challenge his creative needs, to give himself assignments and challenges,  and  commit his time and passion to creating a new more individualistic artistic style.

In the past two years he has seriously been experimenting, altering, and enhancing his images in post production and the production of art prints. His art often is an enhancement of what might be termed “street photography” to more dreamlike impressions with a painterly look.

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At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

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Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

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