The work of Kirk Gittings

[jtk]

http://www.gittingsphoto.com/galler...M the thirty year retrospective book&skipno=0

http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/kirkgittings/

 

[Eric Rose]

He even spent some time at university up here in Calgary. He is a mod I believe over on the Large Format Forum.

 

[WilmarcoImaging]

Kirk is an accomplished architecture photographer, and is a member on the LF site, as Eric mentioned.

 

[jtk]

I spent better part of an hour viewing, yesterday again, the Kirk Gittings work, commissioned by City of Albuquerque on Rio Grande conservation program. A dozen-plus near-pano's (maybe 6X14) of the river, the banks, the cottonwood forest ("bosque") ...each image with someone working on the project, noticed only after the larger subject is appreciated.

Exceptional B&W prints. Compelling.

Great photography. Somehow emotional. A relief Vs the dramatic-sky-obsessed stuff that's so habitual to many. Rio Grande is hard to photograph in B&W due to flat terrain, somewhat monocultural nature (dominated by cottonwood forest)

 

[jtk]

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4PckYhh7hjs

fine interview ...

 

[silveror0]

He even spent some time at university up here in Calgary. He is a mod I believe over on the Large Format Forum.

He jettisoned the mod duties some time ago, presumably to focus more on photography. His work is delicious.