- ContributedBlack and white photograph (silver gelatin print) by Donnette Zacca.
OUR local photographers will mount an exhibition of their work on Saturday in courtyard of the Devon House Garden Gallery.
The exhibition opens at 11 a.m.
The photographers to be featured are Donnette Zacca, Jeremy Francis, Juliette Robinson and Loui Davis.
Slide presentations and general discussions on contemporary photographic techniques and expressions by the exhibiting artists will occur periodically throughout the day.
Donnette Zacca, is a multiple award-winner in this year's JCDC National Fine Arts Festival. She graduated from the Edna Manley School for the Visual and Performing arts with credits in graphic designing and art education.
Ms. Zacca was awarded a USAID scholarship in 1988 to the University of Cincinnati where she studied alternative processes in photography, advanced black and white and colour photography. She has exhibited in Cuba, Washington, Pennsylvania and New York and has participated in numerous exhibitions locally. She currently teaches photography at the Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts.
Jeremy Francis has expertise in film and video production. His talent for still photography developed while completing high school in Brussels, Belgium. His formal training however was at the Edna Manley College for the Visual Arts and from CARIMAC at the University of the West Indies (UWI). Mr. Francis has specialised in making local and foreign commercials and documentaries for television and cinema. He has been commissioned to provide photographs for feature articles in The London Financial Times and in magazines such as Maclean's and Skywritings.
Ms. Robinson was educated at the Edna Manley School for the Visual and Performing Arts, the Creative Arts Centre and TNO Institute in Holland. She is all but traditional in her approach to photography. Her work involves painstaking techniques and innovative use of photographic dyes and darkroom applications. Her sensitive images range from the humorous to the profound, the irreverent to the spiritual. In her quest to explore the universe she embraces a vision to have the world see with the subconscious through her lens.
Her other solo exhibitions "I And I", in 1998 at the Chelsea Galleries and "Myths And Mysteries" recently at the Mutual Gallery were no less striking than the first.
Loui Davis studied mass communications at UWI. Mr. Davis works in all mediums but prefers to use colour for his presentations. He describes his work as proactive in a political and social content. Environmental issues influence him as was evident in some of the exhibited pieces in his last solo showing in 1999 at the Mutual Life Gallery. Mr. Davis's work has been exhibited at the Annual National Exhibition every year since 1997.
