Feb 19 2012

2011 was a busy year

In March 2012, I was one of the featured artists’ at Arts On Douglas in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The exhibit Fifteen Preludes to Lyonia was all new work from a new kind of landscape for me and not to be found very often in Florida. It is an upland area, mostly scrub, a very few trees and very dry.

Two new books

   

I also put together a book with Lori Leech from L2Designs and Katherine Aimone from ArtsWrite. The title of the book is Lee Dunkel - Nine Portfolios: 1985-2008.  It is 7x7 inches and 154 pages which includes 105 photographs, an essay, and professional reviews about my work during that time.

Towards the end of the year Lori and I put together a small notebook aptly named A Notebook. It is 5x8 inches and contains 6 large photographic images interspersed between 19 fully lined white writing pages. It also showcases 4 small photographic images on the back of the notebook.

Both books can be viewed and purchased here.

Upcoming exhibitions

I am currently working on an exhibit for the Southeast Museum of Photography to open this coming September and will have between 26-30 large images and 6 small images also from Lyonia. It will be a more comprehensive view of Lyonia and I hope I will be able to have another book to accompany this exhibit. By currently working, I mean working in the darkroom printing images already photographed and selected to be printed. The final editing will be done after all of the selected images have been printed. A very long and slow process for me.

I also will have a small retrospective of about 30 images from several portfolios at the Alice & William Jenkins Gallery, at Crealde’, in Winter Park, Florida opening on March 16, and a workshop and field trip on the 17th and 18th of March.

Have a question?

Feel free to get in touch should you have any questions about your work or mine. I am always interested in what you have to say and look forward to the break it might give me from the darkroom.
 
Have a good year and “keep on snappin” as one photographer told me years ago at a workshop I took in California.