Focus on Naples photographer Cynthia Taft’s Camera USA 2018 image, ‘Albert at Work’
On view through August 3 at the Naples Art Association is the Camera USA 2018 National Photography Exhibition. Among the 75 images juried into this year’s show is Albert at Work by Naples photographer Cynthia Taft.
“Street scenes like Albert at Work happen because we are looking for them,” writes Taft in the Artist Statement accompanying the photo. “This was daybreak in New Orleans and I wanted to experience the city just waking up when people are 
starting their work days in the early morning darkness. I saw the light inside his truck and as I approached, he looked up and smiled. We talked for a while and then he went back to sorting his packages.”
Taft actually began her career in the visual arts as a self-described “Sunday” painter. But a few years ago, she realized that she felt a stronger connection to the motifs she 
was capturing with her camera.
“Working with the light and technical tools of photography has become a more direct way to express artistically what inspires me and what I want to share,” Cynthia acknowledges. “Sometimes there is tranquility in the soft light of evening while other times high contrast in the light and design may create tension and evoke a different mood.”
In either case, Cynthia clearly prefers conveying the emotion she feels while creating an expression of the scene she takes in over the daunting specter of mixing paints and starting with a blank canvas.
July 4, 2018.
For more, follow these links:
- Camera USA 2018 on view at Naples Art Association through August 3, 2018
- Raleigh photographer Christer Berg wins 2018 National Photography Award
- Focus on Camera USA 2018 Merit Award winner Lisette Morales
- Focus on Camera USA 2018 Merit Award winner Constance Brinkley
- Focus on Camera USA 2018 exhibitor Steve Conley
- Focus on Dennis Church’s Camera USA 2018 entry ‘Royal Poinciana Tree’
- For Cape Coral photographer Roy Rodriguez, ‘Memories are Like Reflections’
- Brian Malloy’s follow up to last year’s award-winning image is a ‘Knockout’
- Focus on photographer Lance Long’s Camera USA 2018 entry ‘Dust from Dance’
- Christine Cook’s Camera USA 2018 image provides connection to her historical and personal past
- Meet Camera USA 2018 judge Christopher Jones
- Meet Camera USA 2018 judge Mark Sloan
- Meet Camera USA 2018 judge Paula Tognarelli
- Camera USA judges sound off on this year’s submissions
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.