Photography focus of library gallery exhibit
Published 11:27 am Monday, March 3, 2008
Ron Hammond and Joan Bowers will have their photography on display from Feb. 10 through March 23 at the Lynnwood Library Gallery.
Ron Hammond has been actively photographing for over 40 years. While largely self-taught, Ron has studied photography at the Keenan Center for the Arts (Lockport, NY), Bellevue Community College, Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle), the Coupeville Center for the Arts and privately with Russell Drisch (Buffalo, NY) and Nick Hansen (Seattle). Ron is a member of Artists Trust and a founding member of Group f/5.6, an active photographers’ salon.
Most of Hammond’s’s work involves street photography focusing on familiar places. “My work organizes itself into loosely–defined, open-ended projects that are rarely finished but often stop in interesting places for a show or a hand-made book.”
Joan Bowers will show black and white photographs from a series titled “Images of Burma, 2005” on exhibit at the Library Gallery. She credits a lifelong career of helping people in her photography.
Images included in the exhibit were all created during a recent trip to Myanmar/Burma. Her photographs represent impressions from her travels. Most of the images come from travels further in the country, areas like Mandalay, Mingun and Bagan. “I found myself captivated by the people of Burma … they are a beautiful people in physiognomy and in spirit.”
Free to the public, the Lynnwood Library Gallery showcases local and regional artists on both the amateur and professional level. The gallery is inside the Lynnwood Library, located at 19200 44th Avenue W. in Lynnwood. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
For information, call the Lynnwood Recreation Center at 425-771-4030.
