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s photographic technology has evolved, so has Scott Taft’s work. A prominent landscape photographer, Taft has explored the infinite possibilities of digital photography to enhance the way he captures nature in all of its glory. From his use of intensely saturated colors to soft focus effects, Scott Taft’s work magnifies nature’s beauty. Referring to himself as a digital artist rather than a photographer, he uses innovative techniques to combine color, shape and composition to evoke emotion and capture the viewer’s attention.
Influenced by French, German, and Russian artists of the early 1900s, Taft’s photographs are often mistaken for paintings. His study of Fauvism, a movement dedicated to heightening the emotions expressed in the paintings through the extreme use of primary colors, prompted Taft’s enhancement of the colors in his photography through highly saturated film, polarizing filters and enhancing fillers. Also influenced by French Impressionism, Taft utilizes digital photography techniques to transform ordinary photographs into impressionistic images, a technique he’s coined as Photo-Impressionism.
Exposed to photography as a young child, Taft later became a photographer for a local newspaper and an award winning wedding photographer. Scott Taft received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in painting and a minor in ceramics. He is currently a member of the NAPP.
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ROBERT LEACH
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t is art in its purest form, the “honest” art, created by the observer with a genius for representing the soul of people and locales. He is Robert Leach, the painter, photographer, and digital artist who has an unabashedly sincere style that condenses affectionate scenes of city-life to its fundamental qualities while remaining powerfully captivating to his audience. With his characteristic uncorked palette each color is vibrantly articulated so that every muse becomes a full expression of itself. A late-bloomer in the art world, Leach began painting in 1978 at the age of 45, a mature man with ideas and experiences bubbling forth, compelling him towards artistic expression. Leach became an overnight phenomenon when his first solo show, held in Harlem, sold out every single piece, and the art world has been enamored with him ever since. He was then invited to Germany to participate in a formal exhibition of his work, where his work was met with great interest and abundant sales. As fervently as Leach creates art, so too is he as genuinely concerned with the plight of people in need. He spends a great deal of time working with well-known educational and humanitarian organizations such as Art Without Borders and Habitat for Humanity. Leach lives and works in New York City.
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