John Pinderhughes “Quiet Scripture”

June Kelly Gallery

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Quiet Scripture, an exhibition of color photographs by John Pinderhughes in which he moves deeply inside nature to reveal its secret treasures and mysteries, will open at the June Kelly Gallery, on January 23. The works will remain on view through February 28.

Pinderhughes is a nature photographer who seeks to capture the beauty in the tiniest details of a seed pod or jewel-like abstract shapes that his eye finds, “beauty we almost saw in life but somehow missed,” according to an essay written for the exhibition invitation by professors C. Daniel Dawson and Robert G. O’ Meally of Columbia University.

Pinderhughes’ photographs reflect carefully structured and highly disciplined preparation following painstaking, arduous rituals, Dawson and O’ Meally write, that enable him to move “beyond the limits of mere technique into the realm of spirituality, where …he uncovers the uncommon beauty of things usually taken for granted or not seen at all.”

The photographs demonstrate Pinderhughes’ patience in waiting weeks or longer for exactly the correct lighting and time of day and finding just the right position for his camera for the result he wants to achieve. His focus on presentation of his subject conveys an intimacy that results in his graceful and personal photographs.

Pinderhughes is a seeker of places where natural light enhances and intensifies the subjects that his eye discovers. A photographer for more than 30 years, he has a clear appreciation for the variations in light and tone, pattern and line that acutely perceived new vistas provide. It also leads him to revisit places where he says self-assuredly, “the light is right.”

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from January 23, 2015 to February 28, 2015

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