Sunday, November 13, 2011

Solo Exhibition in Toronto

My one-man show is up and running in Toronto. The Annex Live/Dooney's Cafe is graciously giving space to 38 prints - a sampling of some of the work that I've done over the last three years. Here is one of the posters advertising the show. I'm honoured to be exhibiting there. Dooney's has a long tradition of patronage of the arts and the proprietor, Graziano Marchese, has re-activated the name of the original cafe where he started it all. The show will run into the spring and I look forward to seeing you there.
The Annex Live/Dooney's Cafe - 296 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto

Friday, September 9, 2011

New Galleries - Humans 1 and Humans 2

Ursula

Over the years, I've been making portraits and of course, candid photographs. The difference between the two is essentially one of collaboration. Portraits require that complicity while candid photography generally does not. Currently sometimes referred to as "street photography" candids are a staple for the photographer interested in the daily human condition. As such, the process is often only known to one of the participants.

Joe & William
  In both can be found irony, poignancy, and sometimes just a simple documentation of the subject. But sometimes there can be found something else that, while superficially illuminating, also penetrates deeper into the subject matter.  In illuminating other faces, other minds, we perhaps learn something of our own.

I've selected some of these portraits and divided them into two groups. The portraits are in Humans 1 and the candids are in the gallery named Humans 2.  I hope you enjoy them both.

To navigate to my home page, go here: www.shane-adams.com



Friday, September 2, 2011

Polar Bears in Churchill

Polar Bear at the mouth of the Seal River. North of Churchill - 2011 © Shane Tyler Adams
All of the sudden the two dogs are going wild. Movement catches your eye, far away from the central specific vision that we use to read, examine detail, or work with small delicate things. Something out in the periphery, detected by the visual ranging system that we've used since the beginning of human survival: the distant early warning system central to the hunt, identifying prey, or in this case, perhaps a threat - a predator ready and able to change the dynamic a full 180 degrees. And then there he is. Relaxed in the flat grey water of the Arctic Ocean, a hunter-killer submarine-sort-of with nearly three-quarters of a ton of displacement - muscle, sinew, fat and fur, driven by what strikes me as a very keen intelligence. The world stops as one marvels at his grace in the water and the simple amazing-ness of it all. And then -wham - he's at the deck, looking in. I saw him get out of the water. I saw him shake his fur, spray water in all directions. I saw him take a few steps, but I didn't see him cross the distance to the observation area. Nor did I take my eyes off of him. Not for a second. 

I've got a new gallery up on my website. Yeah, polar bears. Beautiful, dangerous, fragile. Go figure. Click here if you want to go straight to the gallery and click here if you want to go to my home page and see what else is new. 

Metta,

Shane

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

New Gallery - The Water Cycle

From The Water Cycle  Shane Tyler Adams 2010
The Water Cycle, a new gallery of images is available for viewing on my website. These images were taken in various locales in North America over a period of three years or so. 

As a exhibit that revolves around a theme, there is no intended narrative per se; these images are culled from different periods and locations and inhabit a space within other investigations. Concentrated focus on a particular theme works for a limited period of time but a look back will show certain recurring subjects nestled in amongst other work. This is a partial collection of one recurring theme. I hope you enjoy.

Click here to go to The Water Cycle gallery, or click here to go to the website home page to view other exhibits.


Thursday, July 14, 2011

New Gallery - CYLB Lac La Biche

From  Lac La Biche  Shane Tyler Adams 2011
Somebody lives here. I walked by the trailer maybe twenty times. I even knocked about half the time; nobody there. Separately, I saw the van in town a couple of times and chased it once; I wanted the red... The driver must have pulled into a garage or shed by the time I got my vehicle wheeled around the other way.  Gone. Then one evening, walking back from the lake, I found them all together. Red, green, blue and the summation of all light...

Lac La Biche is an installation-in-progress on my website. There is more to come, and as a collection it is in no way intended to be accurately representative of anything other than what caught my eye when I was there. If there is a narrative, it is supplied by the viewer and that is as it should be. The images trigger and elicit various responses in me, but those are my projections. Make of them what you will.

Enjoy,

Shane

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The New Blog....

"Meet the new blog, not like the old blog, (krang!!)" - after Townsend. 

To all of you who followed the old blog, a big thank you. I was surprised by the number of people who emailed, called, and shouted from the cockpit (you know who you are) telling me they missed the blog after I took it down. It warmed my heart. Rates of Exchange may even make a re-appearance. Until that time comes, I beg your patience. 

I took the old blog down because it had become ungainly for the user.  Originally it was designed as an easy way to maintain content: mostly my photographs and the occasional written piece about whatever attracted my attention. The blog format worked, for a while. Eventually though, I wound up with a really long page that forced people to scroll forever to find the photographs that they liked. Access to collections of those photographs was not easy, and rather than continuously adjust, I decided to move to the gallery format. 

So www.shane-adams.com became more gallery-orientated but I always did feel that the blog was missed. There are few things in life that bring me as much pleasure as seeing and participating in wonderful things and taking pictures of them, only a few, mind you, and I'm not going to enumerate them here but, of those things, writing is certainly one of them. There are many ways to feel as alive, but writing is, for me, a pinnacle experience. With the blog there is also the opportunity to connect pictures and narrative in a way that a gallery presentation or pure prose cannot do in and of themselves.

So here we go. There are changes coming to the website proper as well. Mostly switching from Flash-based delivery to something that works on everybody's platforms, with faster-loading galleries and a more pleasant viewing experience. It is, after all, about getting to the images.

Speaking of images, there is some wonderful stuff in the pipeline. It'll be added bit by bit and, of course, announced here. Stay tuned.
Thanks again,

Shane