WHERE LAND AND WATER MEET, THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF DAVID HARP is Main Street Gallery’s Fall Exhibit – News

Main Street Gallery may be very excited to be exhibiting visitor artist David Harp’s images for its September/October present. Dave’s work on this present focuses on the landscapes, individuals, and natural world of the Chesapeake Bay area.  A famend, award-winning photographer and filmmaker, who’s a lifelong Marylander, Dave lives and maintains a studio in Cambridge and has been photographing the Chesapeake Bay’s “delights and dilemmas,” as he places it, for over 4 many years. 

He explains that he typically finds inspiration for his images within the marshy areas in and across the Bay, the place the land and the water meet. This is the place the above-water life he’s searching for is so obvious, he says. He additionally seeks the perimeters of the times to work, from first gentle to dawn and from late afternoon into nightfall, when he finds his topics “bathed in warm light and with long, revealing shadows.”

A graduate of Ohio University with a level in English, Dave was workers photographer for the Hagerstown Morning Herald and photographer for the Baltimore Sun Magazine for practically a decade. His journal work took him to far-flung places such because the tropical rain forests of Panama, the coast of Normandy for a narrative on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, and to Australia to {photograph} the America’s Cup. His images have additionally appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Smithsonian, Sierra, and Coastal Living Magazine, amongst others. In 1990 he left the Baltimore Sun Magazine and began his personal editorial images enterprise in Cambridge. His extremely acclaimed images have been revealed regionally and world wide, and his images and movie depicting the Chesapeake had been exhibited for 2 years on the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD.

Dave has additionally produced a number of books with essays by longtime good friend and collaborator Tom Horton. These are: Water’s Way: Life Along the Chesapeake revealed in 2000, The Great Marsh: An Intimate Journey right into a Chesapeake Wetland, revealed in 2002, and The Nanticoke: A Portrait of a Chesapeake River, revealed in 2015. In 2011 Snowfall: Journey of the Tundra Swans, additionally created with Tom Horton, was republished. In addition to his books, Dave has produced eight movies concerning the Chesapeake Bay with co-producers Tom Horton and Sandy Cannon-Brown. In 2004 Dave was awarded the Andrew White Medal by Loyola College for his Chesapeake Bay images. He was additionally appointed to the Maryland State Arts Council by former Governor Martin O’Malley.

In addition to exhibiting works by David Harp and the Main Street Gallery coop members, the Gallery is happy to have its first pop-up exhibit, that includes the work of Maureen Farrell. Maureen is an award-winning up to date water media artist who lives and maintains her studio in Cambridge. A local of New York, she discovered her ardour for creating artwork after she remarried, retired and “reevaluated my whole purpose in life,” she says.  Maureen’s present focus is on the human determine. 

Where Land and Water Meet will open on the Gallery at 518 Poplar St. in Cambridge on September 5 and can run by means of October 26.

There might be two artist receptions on Second Saturdays, September 13 and October 11, from 5-8 p.m. Dave will discuss his work on the September reception. The receptions are free and all are invited. Light refreshments might be served.

Main Street Gallery is open Fridays by means of Sundays from 11-5, and on-line purchasing is all the time out there at mainstgallery.net. The Gallery, situated in Cambridge’s thriving arts and leisure district, is the City’s solely artist owned and operated cooperative and has been downtown for 14 years. Main Street Gallery is at the moment reviewing work by potential members and visitor artists. Please contact the Gallery by means of its web site or by calling 410-330-4659 in case you are enthusiastic about being a part of this vibrant artist group.