A Photographer’s Return, On Display This Month At The Gunn Museum

WASHINGTON GREEN — Photographer Carl Weese is being celebrated with an exhibit, entitled “In Living Color,” which is on view through January 5 at Gunn Memorial Library & Museum.

The photographs in this show were made during the past two years. They represent Mr Weese’s return to color work and small, hand-held cameras after nearly two decades of shooting in black and white with large tripod-mounted cameras. The prints are also an exploration of current digital capture and printing technology, which Mr Weese finds in many ways superior to traditional methods of color photography.

“The pictures themselves reflect the notion that there is no hierarchy in photographic subject matter, no good or bad things to photograph,” said Mr Weese. “For me the only reason to photograph one subject and not another is the expectation or hope that it will make an interesting picture.”

Carl Weese grew up in New Jersey, began work as a freelance photographer in 1972 in the Philadelphia area, and relocated to western Connecticut in 1975.

Parallel to his commercial work in photo-illustration for editorial and commercial clients in New York and Connecticut, Mr Weese has produced photographic projects on subjects ranging from life with a traveling carnival to a Pennsylvania town destroyed by an underground coal fire; from a collection of landscapes of the eastern United States to a study of the American drive-in movie theatre.

Mr Weese’s photographs have been widely exhibited in group and one-person shows. He is represented by galleries in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington state and Virginia. Mr Weese lives in Woodbury with his wife, the painter Bettina Skor. Additional information about the photographer and images of his work can be seen online at CarlWeese.com.

Gunn Memorial Library, at 5 Wykeham Road (at Route 47), can be reached by calling 860-868-7756.