We are excited to welcome to Flatirons Photo Club an artist and teacher known to many of us from his participation in Open Studios and from his inspired teaching. Chris Brown has a unique approach to landscape photography that he has developed over several decades of work.  His approach is best described in his own words, “I have spent much of my life living in the wilderness, and my photography is both homage to our home, and an attempt to share some of the beauty, and solace, that derives from wild places. He will share his process as well as his book PATH OF BEAUTY: PHOTOGRAPHIC ADVENTURES IN THE GRAND CANYON. 

 Chris Brown will be presenting and signing his new book: Path of Beauty, Photographic Adventures in the Grand Canyon, and will display prints from the book.  He will give a short talk about his process of First Sight and the Art of Seeing, which is the foundation of his practice of photography.  He discusses the difficulty of seeing the world clearly, and the demons and human psychology that get in our way.

 Chris has photographed in the West for over 4 decades, and makes prints in his Boulder studio.  He has exhibited in over 100 shows, and his prints are in many private and public collections.  He recently collaborated with Boulder’s Sound Circle Chorus in a live concert combining a video of his book with songs about the Grand Canyon river experience, which will be presented again this spring. 

 He teaches one-on-one classes and custom workshops in his studio, and displays his work there each October during Open Studios.  This April he will be doing a joint show at NCAR with Boulder Quilter Judith Trager, featuring photographs from his book, and quilts inspired by them.

In his jurying for club members he will be looking for work that is unique and original.  “I would like to see photographs I have never seen before, in choice of subject matter, interpretation, and its treatment in printing.”  

 (Signed copies of the book will be $30.00,which is 25% off the retail price.)