The title captures the inner and outer journeys of three local photographers to far corners of the world. The show will open with a reception scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 7, at the gallery, located at Kelly Avenue and Johnston Street in Half Moon Bay.
The three photographers who will exhibit work are Steve Horne, Janet Jarvis and Kirk Moore.
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At the “Journeys” exhibit, he will be showing photos from disparate destinations including Spain, Bolivia, Australia, Laos and “the magic kingdom of Miramar.”
Horne characterizes taking photographs as a thoughtful process. He describes taking time to fully explore a place before taking his camera out of its bag. Then, “I’ll take a day and deliberately try to capture the colors and textures on film,” he said in an e-mailed statement. “I like the small backwaters and scenes that talk to me of the place.”
Jarvis, of Native American descent and originally from San Francisco, was fascinated in youth by her family’s Brownie camera.
She bought a single-lens reflex camera in her teens, joined a camera workshop in Palo Alto and began taking night photos from rooftops in that town. She studied photography and portraiture in college, worked in darkrooms in Menlo Park and San Carlos, and then was introduced to Polaroid transfers by Half Moon Bay photographer and filmmaker Susan Friedman.
Entranced by the process of making the transfers, she used it to document her journey through Turkey. The results make up her contribution to the upcoming exhibit, though she used no digital manipulation or color enhancement, and little cropping.
“In Turkey I felt I belonged there,” Jarvis wrote in an artistic statement. “In my soul I walked the Lycian way, in the midst of both past and present. I marveled at Turkey’s special light. In photography, that’s what it is about, ‘writing with light.’”
Moore had been intrigued with photography and travel since a trip to Egypt with an Instamatic camera at age 11. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Colorado with a degree in fine arts.
He took a camera along when he bicycled from Denver to Los Angeles, kayaked and rafted through the Grand Canyon, toured South America in a Vollkswagen bus for a year, trekked the Himalayas three times and embarked on a career as a flight attendant that took him through Europe, Asia, India and Australia.
More recently, he has photographed Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Tanzania, and along the Coastside at home.
He has shown his work in galleries and won awards around the greater Bay Area.
For the “3 Journeys” exhibit he will show images from Asia, Africa, Colorado, Utah and Half Moon Bay.
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