Time(s) - 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location
Atlanta Photography Group
Please join us at the APG Gallery on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 2pm ET in-person and via Zoom for a presentation by artists Peter Essick and Bill Boling about Essick’s book Work in Progess and the process of having a photo book published.
Work in Progress is a dramatic presentation of Peter Essick’s four-year project of low-level aerial photographs of construction sites in the Atlanta Metro area. Essick said about his work, “It wasn’t until I started flying a drone that I realized construction sites offered so many different visual perspectives. The textures and colors of human-altered landscapes are endlessly fascinating. Seeing and photographing this landscape from the air has opened up for me new ways of creative expression. Construction sites change by the day, and the light and exposure are never the same. Wood, steel, and concrete relate to each other in infinite varieties of order and disorder.” Work in Progress is a unique vision of a human-altered landscape.
Peter Essick
Peter Essick is a photographer, editor, author, speaker, instructor, and drone pilot with 30 years of experience working for National Geographic Magazine. He specializes in nature and environmental themes. Named one of the forty most influential nature photographers in the world by Outdoor Photography Magazine UK, Essick has been influenced by many noted American landscape photographers from Carleton Watkins to Robert Adams. His goal is to make photographs that move beyond documentation to reveal in careful compositions the human impact of development as well as the enduring power of the land.
Essick is the author of three books of his photographs, The Ansel Adams Wilderness, Our Beautiful, Fragile World and Fernbank Forest. He has photographed stories for National Geographic on many environmental issues including climate change, high-tech trash, nuclear waste, and freshwater. After 30 years travelling the world as an editorial photographer, Essick decided to focus his work on a more personal documentation of the environmental and cultural changes in his hometown of Atlanta.
Essick’s photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Booth Western Art Museum and many other private collections. He is represented by Spalding Nix Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.
Website: peteressick.com
William Boling
Founder, Fall Line Press
William Boling is an artist, writer, lawyer and photographer. In 2009, Boling founded Fall Line Press, an independent publishing house for photo and art books based in Atlanta, Georgia. Boling lives with his family on a small farm near Milledgeville, Georgia where he specializes in near misses and warm biscuits. Read more of his writing and connect with him @wboling, @falllinepress, @patientletters and through www.falllinepress.com. For more in-depth writing on photography, please follow patient.letters@
RSVP Required
Saturday, November 16, 2024
2:00pm-3:30pm ET
Both In-Person at the APG Gallery at Ansley Mall
And Virtually via Zoom
