The Cooling Rack Gallery is proud to present the photography of Dan Culberson. Come to the Sunday afternoon opening event of Dan's photography exhibit, "Some Truths About My Town," at the Cooling Rack Gallery inside SudsMuffin. Photos will be available for viewing and purchasing. Dan will also be there to chat and talk about his work.
The exhibit will run from Sunday November 20th...
[read more] The Cooling Rack Gallery is proud to present the photography of Dan Culberson. Come to the Sunday afternoon opening event of Dan's photography exhibit, "Some Truths About My Town," at the Cooling Rack Gallery inside SudsMuffin. Photos will be available for viewing and purchasing. Dan will also be there to chat and talk about his work.
The exhibit will run from Sunday November 20th until December 10th. After the opening event, visit any time Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm.
BIO:
Dan Culberson has been taking photographs since he was a teenager, more seriously in the past 7 years or so. By day, Dan works primarily creating video and online content at a high tech company.
Dan is perhaps best known for his music and portrait photography. His music photography was exhibited as part of a group show at the Owen Gallery in Sackville in 2007. His work has appeared in print publications both locally and beyond including the National Post and Rolling Stone Magazine.
In his personal work, Dan is interested in exploring what it means for a photograph to be truthful. Much has been made of digital manipulation in photography and advertising, but a photograph has always been a lie, or at least such a small fragment of the whole it is little more than a suggestion. What a photo purports to represent has always been the invention of a photographer’s choices.
Dan points to the subject of the ocean as an example. A person who has only seen photographs of the ocean will never know what it’s like to stand beside it, dip your toes in the frigid waters, and watch the waves move or the tide rise and fall. In fact, he says they will never even know what the ocean really looks like. A person who has not seen the ocean can only know what a photograph of the ocean looks like.
And so it is with every photograph, he believes. Whether a portrait, or an image from a rock show, or, as is the case in his first solo show titled "Some truths about my town", Saint John, New Brunswick.
