Photographer Patricia Flyzik Falco showcases her ardour for the pure world in “Wanderlust in Focus,” an exhibit that opened Thursday at Tamaqua Community Arts Center, Pine Street, Tamaqua.
“While the show includes pieces from around the world, I don’t consider this ‘travel photography,’ ” stated Flyzik Falco, proprietor of tremendous arts enterprise Runamok Images in Orwigsburg. “Rather, these scenes captured along the way reflect my love for travel and the beauty of the world around us.”
The exhibit marks Flyzik Falco’s first exhibit at Tamaqua Arts.“Wanderlust in Focus,” that includes 40-plus pictures, runs by the tip of the month.
Born in Washington, D.C., Flyzik Falco and her household ultimately returned to Coaldale, her mother and father’ birthplace. After graduating from Panther Valley, she moved steadily, although ultimately selected to settle in rural West Brunswick Township to boost her household.
Flyzik Falco’s ardour for the pure world and eye for artwork started watching her avid-sportsman father take up the outside and seize it by his love of pictures.
“Seeing Jake’s enthusiasm for both, I emulated him by often roaming the woods of Coaldale for hours while trying to bring out that beauty in the high school’s dark room. I began using film and processing in the dark room, but now prefer my Olympus digital mirrorless camera.”
The artist’s nature and panorama roots, she stated, “are genetic, just a part of my being. My favorite quote is Ralph Waldo Emerson: to paraphrase, in the woods, nothing can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity, which nature cannot repair.”
As for favourite photographers, “I am in awe of how Dorothea Lange and Henri Cartier-Bresson can evoke such emotion with just one image.”
Flyzik Falco, who realized pictures hands-on through numerous workshops and hours within the discipline, didn’t begin a pictures enterprise early on. With a level in enterprise administration, she mixed her love of enterprise and animals as proprietor of PawPrints Pet Salon for 25 years.
Community credit embrace serving as president of the Orwigsburg Business Association for a number of years and incomes accolades reminiscent of Schuylkill County Business Woman of the Year and Orwigsburg’s Citizen of the Year.
In 2023, Flyzik Falco — who regards artwork museums as a ardour and inspiration — began Runamok Images. She named the enterprise reminiscent of “I believe art should make us all want to run a little wild.”
In phrases of kinds, Flyzik Falco finds herself drawn to wildlife, macro, avenue, structure and nonetheless life.
“Wildlife is always at my core. I love the challenge of researching and discovering where and when a particular animal will be. You can sit for days to hopefully catch that one special moment, with the perfect background and the right light.”
Lately, “I am developing an attraction to street photography, capturing a person’s real unguarded emotion; their story in one image is a thrill. To me, it’s like wildlife photography, but with humans.”
Flyzik Falco, president of the Schuylkill County Allied Artists, hopes to encourage viewers to pause and really feel a connection to her work. She additionally goals to “tell a story, convey a feeling and have the viewer become involved.”
One problem, although, now going through photographers “is digital manipulation and AI,” Flyzik Falco stated. “I prefer not to use digital manipulation, but am not opposed to others doing so, as long as it is stated upfront. On the other hand, I do not agree with letting a program create a picture for you, as in AI.”
Throughout her pictures profession, Flyzik Falco has gained many juried competitions, had her work printed in native magazines, and labored with a number of tourism companies for his or her digital campaigns. Having her work hold in artwork areas additionally ranks amongst Flyzik Falco’s profession highlights.
The photographer’s work has hung in, amongst others, the Allentown Art Museum, Reading’s GoggleWorks and Schuylkill Haven’s Walk in Art Center, plus native eating places and accommodations.
Looking forward, Flyzik Falco — at the moment dipping her toes into framing and linocut printmaking — desires to include different types of artwork into her pictures.
“I currently print my images on canvas, metal and wood, but how much fun would it be to add paint or ink to those images?”
Patricia Flyzik Falco
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