Landscape photography from Indiana to Idaho is now on display in the Atrium Gallery to show students that interesting photography can be made anywhere, including in the Midwest.
The photography, by Alexis Pike and Walt Bistline, will be on display through Nov. 7 as part of the "Matt Owens, Image and Type & Seeing I to I: Landscape Photography from Idaho to Indiana" exhibit.
The exhibit will include work by Owens, a New York-based designer, as well as Pike and Bistline's photography. Owens' work will represent his design studio Volumeone, which he founded in 1997.
Pike is a Portland, Ore. based multimedia artist and Bistline is an artist teaching at Earlham College in Richmond. The idea behind the exhibit is to combine two different types of landscape photography so that people have the opportunity to compare.
Bistline's photos are part of a continuing series of his called "Earthbound," he said. What Bistline said he hopes people can take away from his art is that visually pleasing, interesting photos can be taken anywhere.
"You can take interesting photos wherever you are, whether it's in your backyard or around your neighborhood," Bistline said.
One of Bistline's favorite pieces in the exhibit is a photo he took at Earlham of a fence on campus. He said it was something he probably walked by every day but never really noticed until one day he was looking for things to take pictures of.
Bistline said he has been taking photos seriously as an artist for 15 years. He started out taking pictures of places he traveled to on vacations, but when he moved to the Midwest he decided he needed to find ways to focus his photography on where he lived.
Several well-known photographers have influenced Bistline, some of whom were photographers he had an opportunity to work with in Texas, he said. He also takes inspiration from Ansel Adams.
"If you are a landscape photographer in the U.S. you cannot escape Ansel Adams," Bistline said.
He hopes several people will come by the opening and let him know what they think of his work.
"I have to thank Jacinda Russell for putting this together. It was her idea to combine the different types of photography," Bistline said. He and Russell worked together in Texas.
ReceptionThere will be a reception for the landscape photography exhibit from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday in the Atrium Gallery.
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