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Steve Garon

Ever since my Peace Corps days in Nepal, I have enjoyed documenting my travels through photography. Thirty years later, I still make most of my negatives during overseas trips, medical missions, and local camping weekends.  I love to photograph different worlds with a 4x5 inch view camera   –   my negatives become cherished souvenirs. For me, a large format approach to photography formalizes and strengthens images.  In my darkroom here in Hilo, I print large silver gelatin photographs using traditional black and white chemistry.  All aspects of the printing process are controlled in an effort to craft a final print with clarity, luminosity, and content.  I seek timeless portraits, contemplative landscapes, and expressive moments.  Several photographs have received awards and some have been acquired by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.  I look forward to new challenges in large format photography, wherever the journey may take me.

Koi Pond

Kathleen T. Carr

Kathleen T. Carr, is a professional and fine art photographer, teacher, author, and a former Creative Uses Consultant for Polaroid. She holds a BFA in Photography from Ohio University, and studied extensively with Minor White before working for Aperture Magazine. Her work has been exhibited widely and has appeared in numerous books and  periodicals, including her books, Polaroid Transfers: A Complete Visual Guide for Creating Image and Emulsion Transfers, Polaroid Manipulations: A Complete Visual Guide to Creating SX-70, Transfer, and Digital Prints (Amphoto Books), and To Honor the Earth: Reflections on Living in Harmony with Nature (HarperSanFrancisco). Her current passions are black and white infrared photography and filming wild dolphins. She resides on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Our Cousin

Tom Whitney

I have been primarily involved in documenting the Hawaiian and Native American cultures and the Warriors Against Diabetes over the past decade. These cultures are closer to the earth than my dour Northern New England religious beginning. “Our Cousin” represents my attempt to use photography share my “religion” and our relation to the earth. We leave Darwin in the dust when we contemplate the vast primordial sea of single celled organisms that that was first on this earth for a billion years or so. During that time, stardust, lightning strikes, ultraviolet radiation and lava flows under the sea created multi-celled organisms in an ever more potent organic soup from which everything living thing on earth evolved. We share cell structure with everything in nature. Thus we are the cousins of everything alive in this heaven on earth here in paradise, including the plants and the birds and the bees. They are all part  of our ‘ohana.
   I created the photograph by taking close-ups of a Hawaiian Christmas wreath and using Photoshop to copy out parts of the wreath and flip them and match them up with the original parts and see the effects of bilateral symmetry to create faces and body parts. There was a lot of that kind of nudging that took place to create Our Cousin. The black was formed by 100% of each of the CMYK colors.
 
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Waikupanaha Fury

David Teves

Lapakahi Village

Jayne Pinc

Aloha!  Originally a country gal from mid-Ohio, I have lived also in Seattle, Arizona, and wilderness areas of Alaska.  I am now living a lifetime dream in the Hawaiian Islands (for over 20 years).  The beauty of this island forms the backdrop of my landscape photos and I have a special affinity for trees, forests & flora, and the enigmatic nostalgia of the older buildings found here.  After many years enjoying photography, I now tend to view the world as compositions seen thru a finder and enjoy both the immediacy of the snapshot and, by printing, the permanency of the final art form.

Paris Metro 2

Ken Goodrich

My passion for photography was ignited many years ago when I began documenting the vanishing culture of the Otomi Indians of Tlacotlapilco Mexico. This spark was quickly kindled and expanded to include explorations of fine art photography after I moved back to the United States.  Later I explored special effects films and processes, image compositing, and macro photography. For much of my photographic career, I have focused on visual design for multi-image events (projected imagery with music and dance).  I continue this journey today using the tools of digital photography and editing.

 In 2007, my wife Mary and I founded Hawaii Photo Retreat, providing photographic workshops and tours on the Big Island.  We are based in Volcano Village on Hawaii Island. 

Joseph Laceby

Born in the shadow of Tulsa OK, 1970. Farm boy by nature but grew up the king of dirt ball wars. My interest in art began early, very early. My father was the developer for the Tulsa police crime lab and I spent many a summers hiding out in that lab. I was given a tall stool to watch all of the processes but I was told to close my eyes when some of the final crime scene prints were washing...( I peeked). I remember the fascination that 7 year old had in a place that few children were allowed. My father's darkroom fascinated me, not only in a visual sense; but it also imbedded within me a memory of the non-visual stimulants associated with a darkroom. The feeling of trusting darkness, the coolness of the constantly flowing water, and the smells that would creep around from the different chemicals.  Many years later in a college photography class, this imbedded memory was awakened. It allowed me to bring back to the medium the playfulness of a child's vision from which it was personally discovered. It's from this that my prints say what they need to say without the complexities of the critically educated adult eye. The cyanotype process allows this to happen in the very nature of the final print. But like anyone true to their vision, the physical deconstruction and reorganization of the print is where the excitement lies for me. I'll never claim to be a purist, only an artist. A maker of things.

Student

Natalie Christensen

Thunda Souza

People's Choice Award

Eye of the Tiger