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& Four Back Mountain photogra-
$phers and a sculptor will partici-
ate in a photo exhibit entitled
Phoot” © through Saturday,
March 22, at the Lizza Studios,
#55 Bridge St., Tunkhannock.
“A meet-the-artists reception
will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. to-
‘day, Jan. 27, with food, refresh-
‘ments and music by The Tom Ro-
| go Experience. Gallery hours are
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through
‘Fridays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat-
“urdays.
The photography exhibit, fea-
turing photographers Mike Burn-
‘side of Harveys Lake, Ivana Pavel-
ka of Tunkhannock and Nick
Ouellette and Tom Musto of Sha-
‘vertown offers a personal
glimpse through the photogra-
‘phers’ lenses. Eclectic black and
white moods, exotic textures,
characters, legs and landscapes
rcombine to make a very exciting
«exhibition of color and light.
Sculptor David Green turns
alabaster and marble into ab-
stract forms with traces of real-
ism and movement.
Ivana Pavelka was born in the
Czech Republic and has been liv-
ing in the United States since
1980. She is a bookbinder and a
photographer. She is a rostered
artist with PCA, an adjunct facul-
ty member at Keystone College
and one of the co-founders and
co-managers of Camerawork Gal-
lery in Scranton.
Pavelka’s work has been exhib-
ited numerous times in juried
»)
( - as well as in solo shows.
$9.95 3
e works with traditional photo-
graphic materials, using chem-
ical processes, exploring differ-
ent subject matters.
Mike Burnside has been taking
photographs for over 40 years, us-
ing formats from sub-35mm to 4
x 5. In the last five years, he has
rediscovered the medium
through digital photography.
“I decided when you could
make an 11 x 14 print in digital
that was very hard to tell from
film, I'd make the switch,” Burn-
side said.
His recent shows include the
Marquis Gallery in Wilkes-Barre
and Something Special in King-
ston.
Although Burnside admits toa
love affair with nature, his work
does not necessarily involve pan-
oramic vistas or wildlife that peo-
ple tend to think of as “nature
photography.”
“My aim is to get people to look
at nature in new ways - to see
things that are before them that
they never saw before,” Burnside
said. “I tend to move in very close
and I don’t mind at all going ab-
ct with an image, even if it in-
olves some manipulation. To
me, if I can capture a dramatic
sunset refracted in a drop of wa-
ter, that says something about
both the sunset and the drop of
water. Hopefully, this will help
people become a little more
aware of the natural world and its
grandeur and fragility.”
Tom Musto has traveled to Eu-
rope, Asia and throughout most
of North America while produc-
ing assignment photography for
“Fortune 500” companies and na-
itionally-recognized advertising
‘agencies.
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ence, Musto has been able to
combine and work within the
three fields of visual art that he
has been passionate about his en-
tire life: Photography, Filmmak-
ing and Graphic Design. These
three elements create the key to
Musto’s approach when shooting
film, video or still photography.
“While I have photographed a
variety of subjects, such as prod-
uct still life for advertising and
editorial montages for industry
and architecture, I'm really inter-
ested in doing works of people,”
Musto said. “To me, everything
revolves around the individual. A
successful work of a person or
people is one that evokes some
kind of emotion. Sometimes
there is only a split second of a
moment to recognize and cap-
ture an event that is happening or
is about to happen. It is the expe-
rience of that moment that is be-
ing reflected by the subject that
gives off a feeling that it is real.”
In 1981, while on assignment in
the Far East, Musto visited the
village of Arun on the island of
Sumatra, Indonesia. Spending
two days in the village, he was
able to capture and document a
lifestyle very different from that
in the states.
The Muslim people living in
Arun are poor with three families
living in a dwelling no larger than
a three-car garage. The streets
are dirt and, at night, parents pro-
tect their children from predato-
ry animals that make their way
into the village from nearby jun-
gles. Yet, something in the way
they lived reflected a proud and
happy existence.
Nick Ouellette was raised in
Shavertown, attended Wyoming
Seminary and moved on to Pres-
cott College, a small liberal arts
school in Arizona, where he ma-
jored in Wilderness Leadership
and photography.
Although he always had an in-
terest in the outdoors, Ouellete’s
time at Prescott was the tipping
point after which he dedicated
ocals showcase art works
3
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SUBMITTED PHOTOS
This photograph of a milkweed, taken by Mike Burnside, of Harveys Lake, is just one of many photos on exhibit at the Lizza Studios in
Tunkhannock.
derness as a therapeutic inter-
vention and capturing the dis-
tinct moments that keep him in
the wildest of places, are only a
few of the settings in which Ouel-
lette has worked. His interests
have led him to backpacking the
deserts of Utah and Arizona, the
pre-Andes by horseback in Pata-
gonia, sea kayaking through the
matrix of ice in Northern Alaska
and navigating the Grand Ca-
nyon as a tri0 leader for his alma
mater.
From grizzly bears to armed
men guarding illegal drug-grow-
ing operations, Ouellete never
knows what he will encounter
but, with camera in hand, he is
comfortable and creative. His
passion for travel and photogra-
1 This photo, taken
by Ivana Pavelka
of Tunkhannock
at the Luzerne
County Fair, is
one of many that
will be on exhibit
at the Lizza
Studios begin-
ning today, Jan.
27.
his life to photography. phy has kept him exploring and
Guiding adults and youth in he is able to share this by captur-
outdoor settings, using the wil- ing powerful moments. 32 il NL .
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