VISUAL ARTS

France: Chaleur

Photographs by Jonathan Stark

November 18 - January 14, 2011

Friday, November 19, 2010 opening reception 6 -8

Talk at Digital Silver January 11, 7 PM



Jonathan Stark's photography is an exploration of emotion, which he describes as "falling visually in love with people and places."



Stark has visited Morocco, Guadeloupe, Canada, Puerto Rico, and much of Europe.



A series of his photographs, France:Chaleur, is featured at Digital Silver Imaging in Belmont, MA, November 18 though January 14. An opening reception is November 19, 6-8 p.m.



In France, the city streets of Paris and the Provencal countryside became his inspiration. "I enter an interactive relationship based upon my own feelings in response to individuals and the intangible experience of place," he says. "All my recent work has been created by my desire to engage people in a moment of emotional intimacy. For the time I am shooting, my subject and I are partners in the process of expressing visually the passions that reside within."



A graduate of SUNY Binghamton in New York and Boston University, Stark studied photography, film, and broadcasting. He is director of digital marketing-video development at Houghton Mifflin. He pursued further photographic studies at the Museum School, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and New England School of Photography.



Stark has had solo shows at the French Library and Cultural Center in Boston. He won a bronze award from the American Society of Media Photographers in 2009.



Jonathan will do a talk on his exhibition at Digital Silver on January 11 at 7 PM.



The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday, 10 AM to 5:30 PM, to mirror Digital Silver's hours, or by appointment. Call 781-729-1158.



The Griffin Museum of Photography is open Tuesday through Thursday, 11 am - 5 pm; Friday 11 am - 4 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, noon - 4 pm. The Museum is closed on Monday. Admission is $5 for adults; $2 for seniors. Members and children under 12 are admitted free. Admission is free to all every Thursday. For more information, call 781-729-1158.



Digital Silver Imaging (DSI) was founded in 2008 as a dedicated black-and-white photolab. DSI offers a unique printing process that provides beautiful fiber-based and resin-coated black-and- white silver gelatin prints directly from digital files. Through a full suite of printing and finishing services, DSI creates museum quality, continuous tone images, uniting the advances of the digital world with the art and archival properties of true black-and-white printing. For more on Digital Silver Imaging visit www.digitalsilverimaging.com or call 617-489-0035.(Map)