Mat Roe, Photography
Aug 2008 to Sep 2008, Downtown Kalamazoo
Excerpt from the book:
Dear Cambodia, A Pictorial Love Letter to a Country
People in your country are so resilient with such charm and kindness. I have had eye-opening experiences teaching me much about your manners and culture. Your country makes it easy not to feel homesick for the U.S., but I am often homesick for Cambodia! From the farmers to the monks to the families, I have so much gratitude for my friends and the complete strangers who have all helped me explore Cambodia.
Book Design by Jennifer Moody
Books for sale at the downtown Water Street Coffee Joint through end of September. $30
Charles Stroh, Photography
Aug 2008 to Sep 2008, Oakwood Neighborhood
Artist Statement
These photographs don’t require much attendant verbiage.
They are straight-forward, mostly unmanipulated images recorded in 2007 and 2008 at CampBell Lake in Comstock Township. What may require some explanation are the titles.
Each photograph is linked by title to a painter from history. In some cases, you probably can see the immediate connection. In others, you may have to stretch a bit. These are my associations, after all, and they may not reflect your own.
Sunsets have become an artistic taboo among artists for over a century and making them opens the image-maker to the possible charge of being an amateur and not serious, or, even worse, a panderer to public taste.
Maybe my cowardly nature has chosen to associate my photo image with a painter of consequence to protect my vulnerable and delicate ego from such charges.
Then again, maybe not.
Charles Stroh – August, 2008
