Artist	Bio	Images

Derek Anderson	Wonderful journalistic style with a strong graphic component.	Images on the Mississippi Delta Dream Express On display October 19 - November 13, 2007

Jeffery Beam	Successful poet with several books and other publications. His visual art was first shown at Through This Lens in October 2006	Currently on display in our overflow gallery

Charlie Cawley	Photography instructor, author, engineer and photographer with a quirky view of life.	Images from Charlie and the Amazing Truth Machine and others We also have a few of Charlie's books of the same title

Lissa Gotwals	Lissa worked as one of two staff photographers for the Independent Weekly. She continues to take on assignments. We are happy to show her award-winning work.	Central Park South: Texture and Contrast in Durham's Evolving Downtown District

Will Grossman	Will fell in love with Durham when he moved here more than three decades ago. His photographic pursuit has always been art, rather than commerce.	Durham in the 1970s: "Sunbeam" showing the inside of a tobbacco warehouse is one of the most praised and loved images we have shown. Visit us to see more.

Rex Miller	Photographer and filmmaker Rex Miller's images have appeared in many U.S. and international publications, and have been widely exhibited. He became interested in Mississippi after photographing B.B. King and meeting folklorist Worth Long. He lives in Durham..	Traditional black-and-white images from the multi-media project All the Blues Gone. Miller returns to the roots of blues music in the Mississippi delta and builds an intimate portrait of a handful of characters whose lives are shaped by many of the same trials and tribulations blues musicians faced in the 20’s and 30’s. Visit Rex's website: www.rexpix.net

Luke Powell	Luke Powell was born and raised in North Carolina. He holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of the Arts of Religion degree from Yale University. When he began photographing Afghanistan, Powell was an ordained minister in the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Church. He currently resides in Nova Scotia, Canada.	Powell captures the beauty and dignity of Afghanistan from the cities in the news to remote villages reachable only on horseback. He photographed the country extensively throughout the 1970s as a tourist and again from 2000 - 2003 in the employ of the United Nations to document minefields, mine victims, and demining efforts. Powell's images of Afghanistan have been widely exhibited, including shows at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Manesh Hall in Moscow, and the Fotographie Forum in Frankfurt. Numerous images in stock, in various sizes, including the Afghan Folio and other dye-transfer images and more contemporary pigment prints.

Jean-Christian Rostagni	A self-described “photographe sur la ligne de front” (frontline photographer), grew up in the Rhone valley of France. He has devoted himself to the art and craft of photography for more than 30 years, working with Denis Brihat, one of the world’s masters of black and white printing and toning. Known for his exceptional technical skill and attention to detail, Rostagni mixes his own darkroom chemistry and does his own framing -- designing, constructing, and finishing each one by hand. He has been published in Le Monde, Elegant Bride, Marie-Claire, The News and Observer, Independent Weekly, Oxford American, and contributes to the technical photography magazine PhotoTechniques.	Premier of Life on Mars, Part I and other work. This major show shown from November 17 - January 16, 2007. We have many of those images on hand. Please ask to see them!

William Russ	Long-time photographer of North Carolina scenes. Bill travels to every part of the state and brings back beautiful and varied work.	We have a selection of 20 or more prints available for viewing

Aaron Sandler	Aaron has created both color and black & white images from his travels, and from the local area. Lately he has been making his own cameras and using them to produce studies of time and perspective.	We have several framed images from Aaron's current work. We also have a selection of his note cards available

Chip Thomas	A native of Raleigh, Chip Thomas has lived and worked on Navajo Nation since 1987. A non-Navajo on native lands, Thomas has employed photography to communicate without speaking. "When I'm successful, I get behind the facades of my subjects and eliminate the barrier that exists between us."	33 silver gelatin prints comprise Time Amongst the People, on view May 18-June 5, 2007.

Hank Tusinski	Most of Hank's photographic work focuses on the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico and the American Southwest. A trip to Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006, intended as a Day of the Dead photography expedition, yielded over 1,500 images documenting the civil unrest in the city and the uprising of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO).	Six images from the Viva la APPO series are on display May & June, 2007.

Wojtek Wojdynski	A native of Poland, Wojtek is know for his custom printing - but he spends most of his time making his own photographs.	About 30 nudes from Wojtek's Allegory show are available. Please ask to see these fine prints. Wojtek's one-man show, Allegory, was shown from January 19th through February 14th, 2007.