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SOUTHWEST LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION | SYMPOSIUM | EXHIBITION
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Sedona Masters
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Derek von Briesen
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Derek von Briesen's stunning photographs of the Southwest - from the smallest details to awe-inspiring vistas - will touch your soul as they take you into the mysterious heart of this wild and unpredictable country.
Although he hails originally from Southern California where he worked in film, music and action sports for many years, Mr. von Briesen has lived in Sedona since 2002. An avid photographer all his life, he now devotes his time to landscape photography, producing fine art gallery prints and teaching photography workshops throughout the Southwest.
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His award-winning photographs have been published by National Geographic, Arizona Highways, USA Today, the Weather Channel and a number of local and regional guidebooks, magazines and newspapers. His image of one of Arizona's most iconic rock formations, Sedona's Cathedral Rock, graces the cover of National Geographic's official 2009 wall & desk calendars entitled Nature's Artistry.
The cover for the two calendars marks yet another collaboration with National Geographic, which began in 2008 when his photograph of Antelope Canyon, located on the Navajo Nation near Page, Arizona, appeared on the cover of Earth: The Biography, the coffee table companion to the critically acclaimed five part documentary that appeared on the National Geographic Channel.
Derek von Briesen is a passionate believer in the power of landscape photography to inspire and motivate people to see more of our beautiful land for themselves, to love what they see, and consequently to protect and preserve it for future generations.
After graduating Summa cum Laude from UCLA with a Bachelors of Arts Degree in United States History, he earned his master's degree from the University of Kentucky. His deep love for history and his understanding of the role that photography and photographers have played in helping to conserve wilderness areas forms one of the key aspects of his artistic mission: to inspire people with beautiful images and compel them to protect and conserve what remains of our most treasured wild places.
He has contributed his time and photographs to environmental organizations such as the Center for Biological Diversity as well as humanitarian groups aiding Native American causes on the Navajo and Havasupai Nations in Arizona. His images have been included in calendars produced by the Whale Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of physical & mental health care for Colorado River guides in the Grand Canyon.
Mr. von Briesen's stunning fine art gallery prints can be viewed in Sedona at the Main Gallery of the Sedona Arts Center. To see his award-winning photography online visit his website at www.dvbphotography.com.
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In 1977, the Nevada Art's Council awarded him the first grant in their history to an individual artist! One year later he was awarded a second grant to study with Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park.
In praise of DeSerio's work, Ansel Adams said, "these photographs exceed the event!"
DeSerio was born in 1951 in Brooklyn, New York. At age two he was already showing an interest in his parents' piano. By five he was demanding a Grand Piano to play. He had formal music lessons for twelve years and became a music teacher himself. He was the youngest on staff at the New York Institute of Music.
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In high school, photography was a hobby but his involvement grew to the point that in college he decided on a photography career and in 1970 attended the famous Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California. In 1971, he began composing music and enriched his photographic experience with his own creative originality. In 1979, he self-published A Last Look, a book of his creative work in the ghost towns of Nevada. It was quickly noticed by the State of Nevada and Governor Robert List made DeSerio's book an offical Gift of State.
By 1980, DeSerio's passion for color photography began and he traveled through the Southwest looking for a new home. After surverying the region, he settled on Arizona and in 1981 he was the first artist ever commissioned by the largest Savings and Loan Institution to produce a collection of images that would be installed in Prescott, Arizona. Sedona became his main focus and he relocated to Red Rock Country in 1983. His works were immediately contracted by Creekside Galleries and then in 1987 he opened the first successful photography gallery in Sedona, Arizona. Today his gallery is located at The Hyatt Pinon Pointe in Sedona.
Throughout his life he never abandoned his love for music and in 1990 released the first album of his original piano music "Rapture The Heart." Three years later, with the accompaniment of his own digital instrumentation to the piano, he recorded and released a second album, "Grand Illusions."
A distinctive feature of DeSerio's landscape photography is the rich and vibrant colors he obtains from the long-lasting IlfoChrome material. He's now refining his skills in scanning his 4x5 film images, adjusting them for output, and printing with a 12 color Canon Inkjet Printer.
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Larry Lindahl
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Larry Lindahl
Lindahl's work is frequently published by Arizona Highways, including feature articles he photographs and writes about backcountry explorations in Sedona and Grand Canyon. Two of his landscape images appear in Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography, the Smithsonian traveling exhibit and award-winning book.
His own book, Secret Sedona: Sacred Moments in the Landscapes, was published by Arizona Highways,
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| and showcases his impressions of the natural world collected over a twelve-year period with camera and field journal. With his experiences in Red Rock Country he was asked to write the chapter on photographing Sedona in the Arizona Highways Photography Guide.His work also appears in magazines such as Outdoor Photographer who featured his Sedona photography with an interview and six-page portfolio titled "Capturing Southwest Light" (Sept. 2009).
www.LarryLindahl.com
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Harvey Stearn has had several careers. He has been a Fortune 100 corporate executive, a community developer and a homebuilder. He chaired the California Arts Council, served on numerous arts organization boards and recently completed a 4-year term on the Sedona City Council. Harvey Stearn has also been a passionate photographer for over 50 years. He made his first monochrome prints in 1951 and quickly mastered that medium. He made his first color prints in 1970. Over many years, he mastered the craft of color photography as well, which is distinctively different from black and white photography.
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He is one of the few photographers that excel in both art forms. In 1994, Stearn entered the new field of digital photography. As the technology improved, he was able to produce images that surpassed silver prints in quality. Today, he uses high resolution cameras and highly specialized editing software to capture and create images with a level of vibrancy and detail not possible a few short years ago.
Harvey Stearn's images have won numerous awards, and are in private collections throughout the United States. His monochrome photograph of a Bristlecone Pine tree was exhibited at the Laguna Beach Museum of Art in 1979. In 1980, he was commissioned by the Registry Hotel in Orange County, CA to create a large monochrome photograph for their main lobby. Mr. Stearn's photographs appeared extensively on billboards and in magazines for Mission Viejo's "California Promise" advertising campaign, which was selected by the American Marketing Association in 1983 as the most effective real estate ad campaign in the United States.
Mr. Stearn retired to Sedona in 2002 to pursue his passion for photography full-time. He is on the faculty of the Sedona Arts Center where he teaches digital photography. His images are on permanent display there, at Sedona City Hall, and also at the Institute of Ecotourism, and are featured in galleries in Sedona and Cottonwood. A series of his Sedona images were submitted to the United States Congress to illustrate a pending application for National Scenic Area designation. His photographs also appeared on the cover and throughout the body of the application for National Scenic Byway designation for SR 179, the main route into the Sedona area. Though he specializes in landscapes and nature photography, one of Mr. Stearn's fashion photographs was used for the cover of Apparel News Magazine in 2005. His images of the 2006 Brins wildfire in Sedona illustrated the feature article of the August 2006 issue of Emergency Management magazine. His image entitled "Old Corfu Woman & Friends" won first place for professional photography in the 2008 annual members' show of the Sedona Arts Center.
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Ian Whitehead was born in England and at an early age moved to the United States with his family. It was growing up on the west coast of California where Ian started viewing the world through the lens of a camera. Ian's family often traveled through the great National Parks of the west, and as a teen, Ian started backpacking with his camera in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Ian later moved to Lake Tahoe, where photography became an important part of his life. Fascinated by the sculpted sandstone canyons of the Southwest, Ian and his wife Lisa now live in Sedona, Arizona.
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| Artist Statement: Photography is both a journey and an experience where light, land, camera & artist connect as one. To me, the result is far more than mere image recorded to film. It is the essence of a place and of nature's mood, forever merged in the stillness, depth and beauty of an instance in time.
About Large Format Photography - After many years photographing with a 35mm camera, Ian switched to a large format 4x5 camera to achieve a higher level of definition. Although the equipment is larger, heavier and somewhat awkward to use, Ian has not looked back since. A pack that goes into the field weighs as much as fifty pounds, and a tripod and cable must be used to hold the camera still.
All functions of the camera are completely manual, light readings are taken with a separate meter and aperture and shutter speeds are set accordingly. The image viewed through the camera appears upside down and backwards, requiring careful study of the composition.
Due to the lengthy set up time and preparation needed for each exposure only one or two frames are taken of a particular location. It is not unusual for Ian to study a location for weeks or longer before finding the 'right' combination of time, conditions, and lighting that capture his vision to film.
Photography for Ian is about the journey - a lifelong adventure in search of new places and new ways to view the world.
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