Chris Carter
I have had a lifetime interest in photography. As a teenager I built my first enlarger from an old plate camera and custard mix tin! I still have one print made with that crude equipment.
During a twelve-year stint of work in East and West Africa I became a 35mm camera user, taking color slides for personal interest. After moving to Canada I extended my interest in color slide photography and attended workshops with Freeman Patterson and Courtney Milne.
After selling our family business in 1995, I decided to resume my interest in making prints as the major expression of my photographic interest.
I studied Black and White photography with Bruce Barnbaum in 1996 and 1997. Seeing Bruce's graphic and beautiful prints inspired me to work on building a collection of my own Black and White images of Vancouver Island and the West Coast.
I attended a major Digital Photography Workshop in Phoenix Arizona in 2003. Since 2003, all new images have been made with digital cameras.
All my prints are now made with Epson Ink Jet printers. The 11 x 14 prints, mounted 16 x 20 inches, are printed on archival cotton rag papers with an expected life without fading in excess of 100 years.
My photographs have been Exhibited in the Old School House Gallery in Qualicum, The McPherson Theatre in Victoria and the Comox Valley Art Gallery.
I won all three categories for Black and White photographs in the Brant Festival in the mid 1990's.