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Alabama Waterways: A Photographic Celebration by Ten Photographers.
With thousands of miles of rivers and waterways, Alabama has more aquatic diversity than any other state in the nation. We also are in a constant battle to preserve and protect this magnificent and irreplaceable resource. This exhibition of works by ten photographers is a powerful gesture that brings attention to the beauty and fragility of this resource. These photographs provide a varied and exciting view of what is an essential part of our heritage.
Alabama Waterways: A Photographic Celebration by Ten Photographers.
Lite Box Gallery, Pepper Place Showroom. Through July 18
Gallery Hours: Thursday & Friday: 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm
Saturday: 8:00 am - 12:00 noon in conjunction with the Pepper Place Farmers Market
With thousands of miles of rivers and waterways, Alabama has more aquatic diversity than any other state in the nation. We also are in a constant battle to preserve and protect this magnificent and irreplaceable resource. This exhibition of works by ten photographers is a powerful gesture that brings attention to the beauty and fragility of this resource. These photographs provide a varied and exciting view of what is an essential part of our heritage.
This show was organized by photographer David Young, who along with photographers Beth Maynor Young, Charles Seifried, Beth K. Stewart, Nelson Brooke, Paul Freeman, Emily Horton, Stephen Humphreys, Hunter Nichols and David Patterson are all involved in conservation activities. These photographers use their own individual approach and style to address the subject of our often endangered waterways.
David Young’s vibrant work offers a heightened experience in bold colors that intensify the experience of swirling and tumbling waters over rocks and rills that take on a vivid imagery full of enhanced energy, releasing a dynamic vortex of brilliant colors.
Beth Maynor Young presents a stunning view of a deep cave carved by centuries of flowing water that is still a work in progress as a graceful waterfall pours down into this deep cavity. Her ‘’River of Lilies’’ shows water lilies exploding up like nymphs out of the water.
Charles Seifried captures the pacific beauty of slow moving rivers with peaceful skies that hover over the water in exquisite harmony.
Stephen Humphrey's abstract studies of textured surfaces flood over in patterns of vivid colors, slices of nature intensified into expressive and sometimes lyrical beauty.
Hunter Nicols offers lovely, straightforward essays on nature that have much the same appeal as the paintings of George Bingham.
In ‘’Otter’s Home’’ Beth Stewart captures a stunning view of trees arching over a stream that are reflected in the water, a Cezanne-like composition creating a natural vortex that draws the eye into the center of the scene.
David Patterson’s tumbling waterfalls are both grand and charming, particularly one picture that includes a boy and his dog sitting on a ledge with the water flowing about the pair.
Nelson Brooke records the beauty of cypress tree trunks in water and in another work captures the slow, voluptuous flow of water moving luxuriously over rocks.
Paul Freeman captures gentle streams and still waters with a clarity and charm that gives photographic realism a good name.
Emily Horton’s lily pad details achieve an oriental clarity of asymmetric balance that is breathtakingly elegant.
These photographers are a dedicated group making powerful statements in an effort to raise the level of concern for an irreplaceable resource unique toAlabama. Working in various capacities as guardians and conservators of Alabama waterways they are intimately aware of what the loss of these waterways would mean to our future.
They are donating a portion of sales proceeds from their photographs to the Alabama Rivers Alliance.
James R. Nelson is visual arts critic for the "Birmingham News."
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