After Years Behind the Lens, Hawthorne Photographer Goes on Show at Mount Pleasant Library

By Vera Giraudo, Examiner Reporter Intern

Hawthorne’s Dave Sheingold began placing collectively his first-ever pictures exhibit virtually a yr in the past when, following his “don’t ask, don’t get” mantra, he walked to his native library and requested if there was an exhibition area open to the general public.

Fortunately, the Mount Pleasant Public Library had precisely that on provide. 

Sheingold’s exhibition this Sunday on the library will characteristic a various assortment of his work, from sprawling pure desert landscapes to glimpses into busy city life and motion. 

The 67-year-old veteran Westchester reporter and freelancer serves as an adjunct professor of information journalism at Columbia University. From 1982 to 2000, Sheingold labored at The Journal News, as a beat reporter after which later as a knowledge journalist masking Northern Westchester and finally Yonkers.

In his spare time he walks canine from Adopt a Dog in Armonk, performs softball with a staff in Irvington—the Foul 6—and, after all, takes photos.

“ I’ve been taking pictures on and off for a long time,” Sheingold mentioned in an interview. “Since college, back in the film days.” It was within the rise of digital cameras, Sheingold shared, that he obtained extra concerned.  

After virtually half a century of capturing pictures, Sheingold lastly determined it was time to extra publicly share his work with the world. 

He described to The Examiner extra precisely what impressed him: “ It was enough people over the years saying, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s pretty good,’ and actually wanting the photos too. […] I said, ‘Okay. Somebody wants me to make a print for them unasked, then maybe there’s enough here worth showing.’”

CAPTURING A MOMENT

The exhibit, titled Alone In the Moment, is a conglomeration of Sheingold’s work over the a long time. The oldest picture within the assortment was taken round 1997 on a visit to New Orleans whereas the newest was taken simply final spring. 

From intimate insights into the lives of strangers on New York City streets to placing black and white pictures of the New Mexican desert, Sheingold hopes his present delivers just a little one thing for everybody. 

The presentation will characteristic plenty of Sheingold’s road pictures, a few of which was taken on his cellphone. 

“ I have found more and more that getting ‘people’ photos with the cellphone becomes easier because you can be a whole lot more discreet,” Sheingold famous.

One picture that might be on show is of a set of strangers on the subway. They each look straight into the digital camera. 

“It’s just a moment on the subway,” Sheingold recounted. “You have this bubble around you where you’re aware of the world, but you’re just staring ahead. So that really struck me.”

When strolling via metropolis streets—whether or not that be Dublin, Barcelona or New Orleans—Sheingold says he retains an eye fixed out for something “interesting.” 

So what does he search for extra exactly?

“Some emotion, some moment,” Sheingold defined. “You see it when you get it. It’s hard to know.” 

‘READY TO BE SEEN’

His pictures typically seize individuals in group, buddies digging right into a shared ice cream, or a pair enthralled with each other. Other pictures memorialize extra solitary moments, like a pair of strangers driving the subway or a person taking part in blues on the road. 

An avid hiker and nature-enthusiast, a lot of Sheingold’s pictures are landscapes that includes uncommon rock formations and starry skies. 

“ A lot of it,” he identified, “is from solo adventures out there where I can just roam. [The] Alone In the Moment title kind of came from there.”

Sheingold by no means shot with the exhibition in thoughts so, when getting ready the present, he compiled what he thought of his greatest work. The title, Alone In the Moment, is principally in reference to Sheingold’s inventive course of when he’s out capturing. 

“ Most of these photos are just me by myself looking to get shots,” he mentioned. “I’m by myself, either literally or in my head, looking for something that can really connect with somebody.”

As this coming Sunday’s occasion approaches, Sheingold is feeling palpable pleasure, and a few nerves.

“ It was a ton of work putting this together,” he mirrored. “I just kind of learned along the way and now it’s ready to be seen.” 

The exhibition opens this Sunday, June 7, and closes on July 9. Photos on show will even be on the market. 

Reporter Vera Giraudo, a media research main at Vassar College and a Robert Schork Memorial intern, can also be contributing audio reporting to The Examiner’s podcast, Local Matters Westchester.

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