RYAN CLARK PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography has always interested me as the medium in which to freely express the emotions in my mind. Being interested in photography at an early age I got my first camera, a Polaroid Land Camera. Though mostly a self-taught photographer, I was always a student of taking photos and print manipulation. While practicing photography at the Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth, VA, I learned how to develop and print photos in a darkroom. This led me to converting one of the rooms in my house into a functioning darkroom, and for many years I developed negatives and made prints for clients and art shows... Digital photography was in it's infancy around this time as I made the leap into digital image manipulation via the "digital darkroom" of Photoshop. Also around that time I was working for Lifetouch National School Studios for about 5 years shooting portrait photography, sports photography and group photography. Some of my nature and city art work have also been displayed at art galleries..