Experience
 
Clyde Butcher
1998-2001
 
For four years I worked with Clyde Butcher as a photographic/darkroom assistant in Ochopee, and in Venice, Florida, where I was the principal printmaker of Clyde's fine art photography. Over this time I was involved in the development and construction, along with the care and upkeep of his 1,600 square foot darkroom.


Korateo Fine Art Photography
2001-Present
 
In 2002 I began construction on my own darkroom. Upon completion I continued with my main focus on further development of my own personal fine art work. Along with the printing, promotion, and exhibition of my Fine Bahamian Landscapes, I began a custom printing service with Korateo Fine Art Photography LLC. Based out of Miami, Florida, I offer museum quality, archival, gelatin silver printing for a selective clientele.



Exhibitions
 
2010    First Thursday Gallery Night              (Opening Reception  -  April 1st, 2010     5:00 - 8:00 pm)
The Mark Fine Art Gallery, Stuart, Florida

2009    Central Bank of the Bahamas 26th Annual Art Exhibition - "Redefining the Portrait"
The Central Bank of the Bahamas Art Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas                                         

2009    The Island School Fine Art Gallery
Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas

2008    Princess Street Gallery
Harbour Island, Eleuthera, Bahamas

2008    Carifesta X
Cliff Anderson Hall, Georgetown, Guyana

2008    (NE4) Fourth National Exhibition
National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas

2008    "Regeneration" - A Celebration of Change
Dharma Studio, Coconut Grove, Florida

2007    Miami Design District / Art + Design Night - Surface Series
Bulthaup Showroom, Miami Design District, Miami, Florida

2007    The Enduring Landscape - Nature as Muse
Dharma Studio, Coconut Grove, Florida

2006    Bahamas National Trust - Wine & Art Festival
The Retreat, Nassau, Bahamas

2006    Baume & Mercier - Time is Endless Exhibition - Fine Bahamian Landscapes
Raleigh Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida

2006    Miami Center for the Photographic Arts
Miami, Florida

2005   Bahamian Music & Heritage Festival
Georgetown, Exuma, Bahamas

2004    Sandpiper Gallery
Georgetown, Exuma, Bahamas

1999    Big Cypress Gallery
Ochopee, Florida

1997    Borders Gallery
Coral Gables, Florida

1996    Photogroup Show - Water
Henery Hall, Main Gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia

News/Press
 

Artist Statement - Fine Bahamian Landscapes

 
 
There are many magnificent places on this planet. People find beauty in numerous aspects and regions of our earth. For me, that beauty comes from a 100,000 square mile archipelago that extends over 500 miles of the clearest water in the world, the Islands of the Bahamas. Being a place free of rivers and mountains, this unique landscape still commands an unforeseen emotion. An emotion, derived from a relatively flat yet majestic world of rock, ocean, and sky.

These photographs reveal a striking landscape, with out the soft early morning light or late afternoon magic hour, so commonly sought after. Instead, they depict the stark reality of a mid-summer day, focusing on the naked, unfurling view portrayed by the reality of the intense sun of the tropics. A sharp, pervading light, manifesting an artistic view often avoided and overlooked. For me, that stark brilliance offers a contrast and truth, which makes up the beauty and essence of these islands. A colorful land transformed, under an illustrious sky, into vibrant shades of grey that reveal an unexpected landscape.

As most trends and movements in photography evolve towards the digital age, these photographs offer a refreshing purity as natural as the images themselves. Exposed from large-format, black-and-white film, these handcrafted black-and-white prints posses a tonality and furnish a look immediately appealing to the connoisseur and the uninitiated. This traditional yet declining process presents a timeless beauty, bestowed on an equally deserving subject, the brilliant landscape of some of the most alluring islands on this planet, the Bahamas.

Artist Statement - Surface Series

 
 
The Ocean has many faces. From the deepest open sea, to the shallows of the most pristine shoreline, there are limitless portraits of aquatic moods that show their face only once.

Moods of water, air, and light: elements of sea, sky, and sun captivate in microcosms of allure. In abstractions of warmth and sensations of cold, we hold our breath and find ourselves immersed in a world of bubble and glare, float and shimmer, depth and dazzle . . .

These Surface Series images embark on an eloquently different style of photography, than my large format, traditional, black and white work. They are worlds apart, yet they define the same aqueous range on our earth's surface in contrasting brilliancy.

All of these surface series photographs were taken skin-diving in some of the most beautiful waters of our planet. These array of colors, reveal aquatic portraits from above and below the surface, and many states in between. But what do we really see...the true subject of these images is found only through the nature of perception.