Colin Smith | Impressions of Time

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Colin Smith, "Solargraph #5"

solargraph print, 37 x 57 in. Courtesy of the Gallery.

Opening Reception: December 1, 5-8 pm

CKG is pleased to be showcasing Colin Smith's ongoing series of solargraph prints. 

Solargraphy uses photographic paper, a pinhole camera and a scanner to create images that catch the daily journey of the sun along the sky by way of very long exposure times - ranging from several hours to several years.

The result is quite magical - "The alchemy of time and light plays out, capturing the rise and fall of the sun’s path through a chosen landscape."

Always up for a good adventure, Calgary-based artist Colin Smith received his education abroad studying photography. He traveled throughout Asia; North, Central and South America; the Caribbean; South Pacific and a little island off the coast of Madagascar. Always accompanied by a camera, many of his photographs made their way into magazines and newspapers, which also led him to work for aid organizations, ad agencies and in the world of moving pictures.

Today, Smith is known for building homemade camera obscuras on location and then photographing the resulting projections to produce highly saturated, breathtaking imagery which hangs on the walls of generous private, corporate and government art supporters. 

Artist Reception and Talk: December 3, 1-4 pm.