While we were down in Carbondale for Easter weekend, I had the chance to spend some time with my good friend Mike Chervinko, who is beginning to get some recognition for his photographs of Southern Illinois petroglyphs. In fact, some of these photographs will be appear in a show at Longbranch in Carbondale from May 18th to June 27th.
If you're local, you should definitely check it out. Mike works entirely in film with old cameras, some antique, and he painstakingly creates his own prints, too. The effort certainly shows in the detail, the texture, and the tone of the final product. He does exceptional work to honor the little-known and the forgotten art of his home region.
Here's Mike's photostream, so you can check out what he does. And below are a few pictures I took of Mike and one of his cameras as he worked his magic.
If you're local, you should definitely check it out. Mike works entirely in film with old cameras, some antique, and he painstakingly creates his own prints, too. The effort certainly shows in the detail, the texture, and the tone of the final product. He does exceptional work to honor the little-known and the forgotten art of his home region.
Here's Mike's photostream, so you can check out what he does. And below are a few pictures I took of Mike and one of his cameras as he worked his magic.
Below are photos I took of the petroglyphs on the site we visited over Easter weekend. The first is my favorite. In its own way it has a Renaissance-fresco feel to it. I also like the deer in the last one a lot. It's much larger than it appears here. The life-sized prints that Mike makes give a much better idea of the scope.
2 comments:
Very cool.
I graduated SIU, in photography, way back in the pre-digital age. These photos and words take me back... 4x5s and 8x10 view cameras, field cameras, processing black&white film, printing gelatin silver prints, among other processes encounterd as SIU.
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