CONTRIBUTOR NOTES
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PETER
J.
CROWLEY
has
worked
as
a
professional
photographic
artist
and
teacher
for
over
thirty
years.
Throughout
his
prolific
career,
Peter's
work
has
come
to
exemplify
not
only
his
purist
approach
to
the
medium,
but
to
many
people,
mastery
of
the
sensuously
precise
image.
His
ability
to
interpret
light
as
emotion
has
allowed
Peter
to
reproduce
the
subtleties
of
tone
and
sculptural
form
that
is
so
apparent
in
his
superbly
printed
photographs.
The
popularity
of
his
work
has
been
enhanced
by
the
technical
perfection
of
his
photography
and
his
insistence
on
absolute
control
of
the
photographic
processes.
Peter's
images
have
been
published
both
locally
and
nationally.
Some
of
the
numerous
art
and
literary
publications
include
Florida
Design,
The
New
York
Times,
The
Boston
Globe,
and
The
Sun.
In
the
summer
of
2001
Peter
published
his
first
book,
"All
the
Usual
Subjects",
a
cultural
documentation
of
an
aging
mill
town
struggling
to
find
a
new
identity.
Peter
is
available!
for
Portraits,
Model
Portfolios,
Theatre
Arts
Production,
Product,
Advertising
and
Publicity
Photography.
He
also
conducts
workshops
and
classes
such
as
"Photographic
Philosophy",
"Low
Light
Photography",
and
"Studio
Lighting
for
the
Figure:
How
to
Create
Classical
and
Sculptural
Light".
The
following
portfolio
series
are
available
for
gallery
Exhibition:
Backstage:
The
performance
the
audience
never
sees.
Dramatic
Sculptural
Images:
Figures
in
high
and
low
key
lighting.
Coast
to
Coast:
Railroad
travel
photographs.
Lifestyle
and
Culture
of
Olympia
Seattle
and
Coupeville
Washington:
A
documentary.
"All
The
Usual
Subjects"
book
review
http://www.nikonians.org/html/resources/bookshelves/all_the_usual_subjects/all_the_usual_subjects.html
Newspaper
Articles
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20010705/living/742052.html
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20030314/living/1173375.html
Peter
J.
Crowley
holds
the
copyright
of
all
these
images.
No
reproduction
rights
are
released.
This
means
that
photographic,
electronic,
offset
publishing,
or
any
other
means
of
production
are
strictly
prohibited
without
written
consent
of
Peter
J.
Crowley,
photographer
and
sole
owner
of
copyright.
For
more
details
and
information
on,
Peter
J.Crowley's
images
and
workshops
and
latest
works,
please
visit:
Peter J. Crowley Fine Art Photography and Select Assignments http://www.peterjcrowley.com |
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FRED & LARA ELLIS are photographers living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Their photography is available for sale from galleries throughout Virginia. They also does portraits on request. They can be contacted at: mindseye@shentel.net |
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BARBARA
HILAL
is
a
70
year
old
woman
just
beginning
to
live
now
that
she
has
time
to
paint
and
write
poetry.
She
lives
in
Savannah,
Georgia
and
still
work
part-time
as
teacher's
aide
with
pre-school
children.
Barbara can be contacted at:BHILAL31404@peoplepc.com |
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CRAIG
KIRCHNER
lives
and
works
as
a
sales
rep
on
the
east
coast
but
considers
himself
a
hobo
of
the
universe.
He
writes
about
what
he
knows
best
and
yet
least
-
himself
-
in
an
effort
to
remove
those
labels. craigkirchner@netzero.com 410-392-0330 |
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LYN
LIFSHIN's
most
recent
prizewinning
book,
(Paterson
poetry
award)
BEFORE IT'S LIGHT, was published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of COLD COMFORT in 1997. ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME will be published by Black Sparrow books published by David Godine in November 2003. (ORDER@GODINE.) Also, just published is A NEW FILM BY A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH THE DEAD, March Street Press. She has published more than 100 books of poetry, including MARILYN MONROE , BLUE TATTOO, won awards for her non fiction and edited 4 anthologies of women's writing including TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE'S THREAD, and LIPS UNSEALED. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, "No More Apologizing," has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement." An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, "On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Sheets" was published Spring 2003. She is working on a collection of poems about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse Ruffian, new chapbooks including GIRLS AND WOMEN and MAD GIRLS and a new collection called THERE WERE DAYS, SO PERSEPHONE. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com |
| PETER MAGLIOCCO has edited the print lit-zine ART:MAG for nearly 20 years from Las Vegas, Nevada, and has poetry & fiction in several online & print places like BLAZE, THE WHIRLIGIG, & elsewhere... His novel of futuristic terror, "NU-EVERMORE" ($11, from Trafford Publishing, www.trafford.com, in cooperation with his own Limited Editions Press), is available via Amazon.com, Borders Books, et al... |
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Emmy-winner
DUSTIN
D.
MORROW
is
a
digital
filmmaker,
photographer,
and
writer.
He
was
born
and
raised
in
a
rural
Illinois
community,
where
he
wrote
his
first
novel
in
third
grade,
directed
his
first
play
in
fourth
grade,
and
made
his
first
film
in
seventh
grade.
In 2000, Morrow returned to the Midwest to earn his MFA in the department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa after working for four years as an editor and director of music videos and commercials in Los Angeles. He was the founder of the digital film festival "D:Cinema," based in Iowa City, and the director of a large-scale mounting of Stephen Belber's play "Tape," in which he integrated digital media into the traditional theatrical setting in new and interesting ways. His short digital movies and photographs have won numerous awards and been shown in venues around the world. Morrow currently works as a Visiting Assistant Professor of film and video production at Monmouth College; writes about Digital Filmmaking and New Media; and continues to produce digital movies and photo essays. Morrow's artistic goals involve utilizing this seemingly cold and impersonal technology to move audiences emotionally, to create "digital mood pieces." He is currently in post-production on his first feature-length documentary, and he will direct two more films in the next year, in Germany and Hawaii.
His
works
have
screened
internationally
in
a
variety
of
forums,
including
the
Ann
Arbor
Film
Festival,
the
Academy
of
Television
Arts
and
Sciences,
the
Cornell
Environmental
Film
Festival,
the
Antimatter
Festival
of
Underground
Short
Film
and
Video,
the
Flicker
Film
Festival,
the
Palm |
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LAUREN
RAINE,
MFA,
has
been
a
performance
artist,
visual
artist,
and
mask
maker
for
25
years.
She
has
studied
traditions
of
Temple
mask
and
dance
in
Bali,
with
Ida
Bagus
Anom
and
others.
In
1999
she
created
20
multi-cultural
Masks
of
The
Goddess
for
THE
20TH
SPIRAL
DANCE
in
San
Francisco
with
Starhawk
and
Reclaiming,
as
well
as
choreographing
fire
dances
for
the
Spiral
Dance
and
the
Goddess
2000
Project.
In
2000
she
collaborated
on
the
production
of
TRAGOS,
a
film
by
Antero
Alli,
and
was
the
Director
of
Rites
of
Passage
Gallery,
a
Center
for
Transformative
Arts,
in
Berkeley,
California.
She
has
directed
and
performed
in
many
ritual
theatre
events,
including
the
Masque
of
the
Goddess
at
the
Willits
Community
Center
(2001)
,
The
Masque
of
the
Goddess
at
the
Sebastopol
Community
Center
(2001),
the
First
Annual
Spiral
Dance
of
Tucson
(2000),
Woman
With
a
Thousand
Faces
(at
the
Black
Box
Theatre
in
Oakland
(2002).
She
has
taught
workshops
in
maskmaking
in
California,
Arizona,
and
New
York,
and
was
a
featured
speaker
at
the
Matrilineage
Symposium
at
Syracuse
University,
Napa
Community
College,
and
many
others.
She
is
currently
working
with
groups
who
wish
to
create
events
with
her
Masks
of
the
Goddess
series,
and
is
working
on
a
book
about
masks
and
community
ritual
theatre.
LAUREN
RAINE |
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ERIC
ROOT
has
been
a
photographer
since
age
seven.
He
prefers
to
shoot
medium
format
but
uses
a
Contax
G-2
35mm
rangefinder
camera
for
color
work,
due
the
sharpness
and
contrast
of
the
images
that
result
from
the
rangefinder
camera.
The
majority
of
his
work
is
black
and
white
photography,
but
he
has
begun
exploring
color
images
using
digital
scanning
and
reproduction
techniques.
In
his
mind,
each
medium
has
its
own
attributes,
advantages
and
disadvantages
in
conveying
the
photographer’s
vision
on
paper.
He
maintains
total
control
over
the
image
creation
process
from
shooting
through
development
and
printing
to
final
mounting
of
the
image.
In
general,
he
prefers
black
and
white
photographs
because
they
are
one
step
removed
from
our
normal
vision
and
perception
process,
a
level
of
abstraction
that
triggers
our
subconscious.
This
level
of
abstraction
reveals
certain
elements,
or
brings
them
to
the
surface,
so
that
the
viewer’s
perception
is
altered
and
open
to
the
depth
of
the
image
and
all
it
has
to
offer.
Eric
Root
often
refers
to
a
line
in
the
movie
American
Beauty:
“Sometimes
there
is
so
much
beauty
that
it
hurts”.
His
photographs
attempt
to
bring
into
awareness
all
that
is
special
around
us
each
day,
our
friends,
our
families,
our
environmental
surroundings,
life.
His
photographs
attempt
to
capture
the
lines
and
forms
of
nature
and
the
human
body,
powerful
elements
that
at
innate
to
all
of
us
as
human
beings.
His
portraits
attempt
to
capture
that
unspoken
quality
that
says,
“this
is
what
is
special
about
this
person…
this
captures
their
soul”.
Eric
Root
(alias
DILLID:
Dark
into
Light…
Light
into
Dark)
explores
both
the
dark
and
light
sides
to
life,
knowing
that
one
cannot
exist
without
the
other,
that
each
is
a
mirror
to
the
other.
His
themes
purposely
provoke
the
viewer
to
look
within,
to
access
the
full
spectrum
of
life.
He
is
currently
exploring
high
resolution
digital
color
panorama
images
using
a
Kaidan
QuickPan
Magnum
tripod
head,
PTGui
stitching
softwaare,
PhotoShop,
Nikon
Coolscan
8000
scanner,
Epson
2200
archival
ink
printer.
Some
of
his
panoramas
involve
digital
stitching
and
manipulation
of
up
to
ten
images. Eric Root has a studio in Leavenworth, Washington. Contact
Info: |
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CHRIS
TOLIAN
is
one
of
those
people
constantly
searching
for
things
that
he
doesn't
yet
understand.
Finding
muses
makes
him
blissfully
happy.
He
is
intrigued
by
people
and
forever
trying
to
connect.He
can
be
found
mostly
around
Chicago
looking
for
that
quiet
place
between
the
city
and
serendipity
where
the
wild
things
dance
and
the
sidewalk
ends. He has been published with Clean Sheets (http://cleansheets.com/exotica/tolian_09.24.03.shtml , http://www.cleansheets.com/exotica/tolian_05.28.03.shtml) and Slow Trains Literary Journal (http://www.slowtrains.com/vol3issue3/tolianvol3issue3.html). His email is: christopher_2031@hotmail.com |
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A.
D.
WINANS
is
a
native
San
Francisco
poet,
writer
and
photographer,
whose
work
has
appeared
world-wide. He welcomes correspondence at AD1936@juno.com |
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JOHN
YATES
lives
as
far
back
in
the
woods
as
he
can
at
the
edge
of
the
Allegheny
National
Forest
in
northwestern
Pennsylvania.
He
also
has
lived
in
very
remote
areas
of
Montana,
Ontario
and
Alaska.
His
writing
often is
based
on
the
power
of
nature
to
heal
and
transform
people,
and
of
eros
as
the
symbol
and
expression
of
transformation
and
a
healthy
and
vibrant
sense
of
self
and
life.
"Who
I
am
sexually,
is
who
I
am,"
he
said.
His
favorite
writers
include
Walt
Whitman,
Henry
Miller,
Linda
Hogan,
Terry
Tempest
Williams
and
Lenore
Kandel.
He
trains
dogs
for
a
living,
likes
to
get
his
hands
in
the
dirt,
often
is
off
the
wall,
and
values
intimacy
and
sharing
in
human
relationships.
"If
you
are
going
to
be
alive,"
he
says,
"do
it
to
excess.
Live,
love,
celebrate
life
and
be
overwhelmed
by
the
beauty
around
you."
He can be reached at standingrock814@hotmail.com |