Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Biography
Dennis is president of Corrales Arts Center, a 200-member organization that promotes local artists, and offers classes and workshops in all forms of art.
As a diamond and platinum award winner along with numerous other awards for photographic excellence in international competitions, he has earned the degrees of Master Artist, Master Photographer, Certified Professional Photographer, and Photographic Craftsman from the 30,000-member International Professional Photographers of America (PPA). Dennis teaches creative art photography for PPA and other organizations throughout the Southwest.
Artist’s Statement
As the son of a lifelong Eastman Kodak employee, I was surrounded by cameras from a very early age. But when I moved to New Mexico in 2007, the beauty of the terrain made my heart soar, and it finally ignited my photographic passion. My artistic goal became clear: to convey the thrill and to capture what is in my heart when witnessing the wonderful landscapes and other scenes of our state and the rest of the Southwest. The spectacular landscapes awe and inspire me, sending me down an endless path to try to share my passions through my photography.
To try to communicate what I feel - rather than simply what my camera clinically records - requires all the various tools available today, and I use them without apology or restraint. I want to reproduce the drama, vibrancy and emotion that emerges when I am on the shooting location. To be alone in Monument Valley before sunrise, to feel these breathtaking formations in the darkness and then experience them as they gradually appear and are set on fire as the sun rises – that is what I live for. My desire is to ignite this same thrill in viewers of my work.
