Artist Statement
Gordon Stettinius is an artist and educator living in Richmond, Virginia and writing in the third person. He recently took a break from teaching to found a publishing company, Candela Books, dedicated to producing quality fine art photography books.
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I am setting out to collaborate with other artists, in the hopes of leaving a collection of quality analog footprints in these shifting sands of transient technology. Beautiful, distinct, intellectual, atavistic, awkward, intuitive, emotional, scathing, melancholy, humanistic footprints.
Process Statement
I prefer lo-fi equipment: vintage cameras, plastic cameras, pinhole cameras, etc.
I prefer analog processes. I enjoy darkroom printing still and occasionally dinking around with alternative processes and mixed media work.
And then sometimes I'll pop a xanax and shoot my digital camera in public.
As a photographer, Gordon Stettinius has been exhibited nationally and internationally over the last twenty-five years and his work can be found in numerous private and public collections. His work is represented by Robin Rice Gallery in New York and Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Stettinius is also an emeritus member of 1708 Gallery and an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
In 2010, Gordon founded Candela Books, a publishing company, and, to date, they have produced three fine art photography monographs with more in the works. In 2011, Gordon founded a fine art photography gallery dedicated to featuring the work of nationally respected photographers. Candela Books + Gallery now inhabits a renovated 3,800 square foot building in the downtown arts district of Richmond, Virginia and is one of the leading advocates for fine art photography in the mid-Atlantic region.
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