He is Canadian born ,but not enough interest yet for his exhibtion to be shown here in Canada .
If you have seen it I would like ot hear what you thought about it .
Looks like I am going on a trip in the near future!
I had the pleasure of seeing Gregory Colbert’s “Ashes and Snow” exhibit earlier today (Saturday).
Words can’t describe the peace and creative imagery at this show.
My first impression of the work as I first entered the gallery was; This is some amazing digitally manipulated imagery.
I think I have a pretty good grasp on photography and a better than average ability to tell the difference between a photograph and digitally created artwork. I would have bet money that I was viewing images that were somehow cloned together with animals and people. (And I would have lost that bet).
The pictures Gregory Colbert has on display are simply unbelievable. When you reach the end of each hallway of images, the exhibit is then presented in a full artistic motion picture presentation, as you would see at a movie theatre. The people and animals are all moving independently and the unbelievable imagery you just looked at in stills, all comes to life on the screen. Only then you realize these images are all real.
I would love to hear some feedback from others who have seen this show.
I highly recommend the show to any serious photographer.
I have never seen anything like this. I am inspired and depressed. Confused. I invariably scoff at mysticism and romanticism as affectation. But this stuff just smacks me to the ground. For me, it's a bewildering, frightening interrogation. I can (just) manage to laugh off the sentimentality of the human/animal juxtapositions, but I can't do it for long; this guy's clarity of vision is like an irresistible, brutal arc light. And I'm a deer, transfixed in the beam. Looks like Colbert can mount my head on his wall.
I had the pleasure of seeing Gregory Colbert’s “Ashes and Snow” exhibit earlier today (Saturday).
Words can’t describe the peace and creative imagery at this show.
My first impression of the work as I first entered the gallery was; This is some amazing digitally manipulated imagery.
I think I have a pretty good grasp on photography and a better than average ability to tell the difference between a photograph and digitally created artwork. I would have bet money that I was viewing images that were somehow cloned together with animals and people. (And I would have lost that bet).
The pictures Gregory Colbert has on display are simply unbelievable. When you reach the end of each hallway of images, the exhibit is then presented in a full artistic motion picture presentation, as you would see at a movie theatre. The people and animals are all moving independently and the unbelievable imagery you just looked at in stills, all comes to life on the screen. Only then you realize these images are all real.
I would love to hear some feedback from others who have seen this show.
I highly recommend the show to any serious photographer.
Thanks Gringo for posting your feed back and bringing this thread back ,I was hoping that more people would have seen it.
I think Greg's work is just awesome stuff!
[quote=Bear_Music] That is absolutely beautiful work. And a stunningly creative web site as well. If I could afford to, I'd fly to California to see this exhibit.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Someone make sure Kavita sees this :-)
Robert, thank you SO MUCH for ensuring that I didn't miss this. I appreciate so much your thinking of me - I absolutely do adore this work and I'm so grateful to you for making sure I saw it.
Huge thanks...
BTW, talking about the work itself, I love his use of light and shade - some of the lighting is just beautiful. And of course, it's so wonderful to see wild animals presented in this artistic way. Wildlife photography (I use that term loosely sa I'm assuming the ones pictured are domesticated to a certain degree) isn't usually an area in which artistic presentation comes to the fore. That's not to say there isn't artistic vision in terms of composition and depth of field but that it's seldom approached in this way.
This work reminds me a little of the black and white wildlife photography of Nick Brandt. He takes a similarly rare and artistic approach and also chooses black and white to express his vision though the contents of his images are quite different.
Robert, thanks again and thanks also to Randy for posting the link in the first place.
BTW Just to add... I really like his images and style but I don't like the whole zen/ mystic/ spiritual presentation. I think the images stand alone and don't need that crutch to sell them.
There are some I like much more than others - for example the young boy tilting forward into the pool of light in which a single shell sits... and some I like less - for example some of the ones combining animals and people in what seem like rather odd and arbitrary poses and juxtaposition.
