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Susan Carr was born and raised in Indiana and has been passionate about photography since she took her first photography class back in high school. Her love of architecture and travel make her professional specialty in architectural photography a perfect fit. Susan’s photographs have always emphasized the details revealing through her vision the essence of her subjects.
Susan’s attention to the small elements gives her work a precious quality that clients find invaluable. Striking compositions and the use of lush lighting give Susan’s photographs the power to draw the viewer in over and over again.
Susan exhibits her work widely in galleries and museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art and the Thomas Werner Gallery. Her work is included in many private and public collections, most notably the Pfizer Corporation and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Susan is an active member in the American Society of Media Photographers, serving as the National President from 2004-2006. She is only the third woman to hold that post in the society’s sixty-year history. ASMP is a trade association representing over 5000 professional photographers worldwide.
Susan is a frequent visiting artist and lecturer including the University of Michigan, the Center for Creative Studies and the Society for Photographic Education’s Midwest Conference. She also served as a seminar panelist for the American Institute of Architects national conference in 2005.
Gary Cialdella
Gary Cialdella has been photographing since he was a teenager. His interest in vernacular landscapes and architectural subjects began as a child growing up on the industrial south side of Chicago. His passion for the built environment makes him perfectly suited to the specialty of architectural photography.
Gary’s ability to repeatedly find the “perfect viewpoint” to translate the essence of a given building into an eloquent photograph brings his clients back to him again and again. His images are graceful, revealing the strength of the subject without resorting to clichés or tricks. The results are strong photographs that stand the test of time.
Gary’s photographs are exhibited widely throughout the United States, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brauer Museum of Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. A portfolio of recent work is currently part of the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographer Archive.
His work is included in numerous public and private collections, most notably the Pfizer Corporation.
Gary received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Notre Dame and also has a Masters in History. He received grants from both the Michigan Council for the Humanities and Michigan Council for the Arts for projects photographing rural and vernacular subjects in southwest Michigan.
Gary is a respected educator in the field having taught photography at many colleges and universities, including the University of Notre Dame, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and Western Michigan University. In addition he has taught workshops at numerous institutions, including the Center for Creative Studies, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. |
