The Photography
of
Jerrie Van Horn Paschal

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I love to find graphic subjects and interpret them in tones of light and shadow. There's something very calming in making graphical images out of the chaos and disorder of old buildings, rust, and decay. Finding or creating S-Curves, Triangles or Diagonals where there appears to be no order makes sense for me.

I also love to photograph children. I don't have any myself, so I have to beg time from the neighborhood kids. I like it when they are here and I like it when they go home!

My philosophy on equipment is that the best equipment is in the brain and eye of the photographer--the hardware doesn't really matter. But, having said that, I always buy the best I can afford.

I use a Hasselblad 500CM for my Black & White work--mostly with my 150mm lens. I use Canon A2 and EOS 620 cameras for my 35mm work, although my all time favorite camera is the Canon A1. I use Tri-X Professional film, for the most part, and develop it in HC110. I process and print all my own work. I do have PhotoShop and an Epson Photo Printer in my gadget bag, but I am still most comfortable in the traditional darkroom.

My style...? I don't really have heroes or mentors in photography though I respect everyone's work from Ansel Adams to Brett Weston. Leon Kennamer of Guntersville, Alabama probably impacted my photographic style as much as anyone. "Get it on the negative," he said. "Don't try to fix in the darkroom what wasn't in the image." Leon may have understood as much about light as anyone I ever met. His portrait work was incredible. I only wish I could do so well.

Photography is my passion and my hobby. I belong to the Cobb Photographic Society in Marietta, Georgia where I serve as the newsletter editor. Click on the link to get a sample copy of the Contact Sheet, which I produce in Corel Ventura, or more information about the organization. I also belong to the Photographic Society of America.

"Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. An ugly or grotesque subject may be moving because it has been dignified by the attention of the photographer. A beautiful subject can be the object of rueful feelings, because it has decayed or no longer exists. All photographs are 'memento mori'. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."--Susan Sontag

I join my photographs with my family history because they each are a moment in my life. Please enjoy this gallery of some of my favorite images.

Please take a look through my Photo Gallery.

Photography Links

Photographic Society of America

Cobb Photographic Society

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