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SUMMARY:Photographs By Rod O’Connor
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: Photographs By Rod O’Connor=0D=0AEvent Url: http://arttixri.com/event/detail/441573977=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2012-04-05=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2012-05-02=0D=0A=0D=0ALike many artists, East Providence graphic artist and photographer Rod O'Connor juggles several careers. Ever since his years at Hanover College in southern Indiana almost four decades ago, he worked, and still does, as a graphic designer. O'Connor is also an internet entrepreneur with two separate companies selling religious jewelry and police, fire and EMT insignia, pins and collar brass.  His fourth career, one near and dear to his heart, is as a photographer.=0D=0A==0D=0A=At Hanover, O'Connor worked at the college newspaper cutting and pasting layouts. Computers had yet to take over the world and O'Connor did his work the old-fashioned way with type, boards and wax.  During the summer breaks, O'Connor worked at the newspaper in his town and came in contact with the paper's photographers. =0D=0A==0D=0A=“I worked with photographers who were really good at their craft,” O'Connor says.  “And, they were really good people.”  When he showed interest in photography, they encouraged him to get a camera and take some shots himself.  “So I did,” O'Connor reminisces, “and I enjoyed it more than I thought.”=0D=0A==0D=0A=He followed his parents to Rhode Island when his father took a job as a plant manager for an area steel company.  He had his first real career job at an advertising agency in Providence and worked for several agencies before starting out on his own.  “It was the eighties in Providence,” O'Connor explains, “agencies were coming and going like taxis at a taxi stand.”=0D=0A==0D=0A=During this time, O'Connor would “pick up the camera, take photos and then put it down.”  One day he picked it up and hasn't put it down since.=0D=0A==0D=0A=“Before I did it [photography] for myself,” O'Connor says.  “I really didn't show very much and then friends gave me encouragement.  I began to join associations and exhibit.”    Today, he shows and sells his photographs at the Hope Gallery in Bristol and belongs to the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative and South County Art Association.=0D=0A==0D=0A=O'Connor uses an unusual photographic system in his work – high dynamic range technique.  The technique sandwiches several versions of the same shot, all taken with a tripod and slightly different exposures, in one photograph.  “By taking multiple exposures of the same image and combining them all in one large file, I capture a wider range of color and detail,” O'Connor explains.  He makes very few adjustments to the final file and feels “that the image should be what it is.” =0D=0A==0D=0A=Consequently his photographs have a still, serene quality with a painterly edge.  He is attracted to quiet arrangements of colors and shapes, the mundane moments of life others might not notice.=0D=0A==0D=0A=“I have just been enjoying the finding of the pictures,” O'Connor muses.  “It's not just what the pictures are of, but what they become.  By defining the space, by putting a box around it, it makes it something else.”=0D=0A==0D=0A==0D=0A=The BankRI Galleries are curated by Paula Martiesian, a Providence-based artist and arts advocate.=0D=0A= =0D=0A=0D=0AStart time:Monday through Wednesday 8:30pm - 4pm=0D=0A=Thursday and Friday 8:30pm - 5pm
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