Christopher Crawford

The March-April 2010 issue of Indiana Preservationist, the magazine of the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, features my photograph of the sign on top of the GE factory complex on Broadway in Fort Wayne. The photo illustrates the title page of an article about historic factories in Indiana.

Fraction Magazine, an online fine art photography journal based in Albuquerque, has a new exhibit of work by members of the Analogue Photography Users Group, an online community for photographers who use film. Fraction selected 29 photographers out of more than 300 submissions by APUG members, and I am honored to be one of those selected. Check out the exhibit, there is some magnificent work on display from photographers around the world.

This photograph, from my Forgotten Indiana project, was chosen for the exhibit on Fraction Magazine.

The Fort Wayne Photographers exhibit at the Artlink Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana includes one of my photographs, “Grandpa and Apollo”.

I was pleasantly surprised to see my photograph talked about and published in the review of the show in the Fort Wayne Reader, a local arts and entertainment newspaper. I’ve excerpted the part of reviewer Dan Swartz’s article that talks about my work below:

“Christopher Crawford also presented a beautiful photograph, entitled “Grandpa and Apollo,” which is fulfilling on many different levels. First, Crawford’s photography is superb from every technical sense. This is very important in any judgment of a photograph; although it may be an art form, open for subjective interpretation and opinion, it also has roots in science and design. Crawford mixes the two in a captivating way in this image, one that I enjoyed initially, and found myself constantly coming back to. The second reason for this piece’s success is its lack of pretension. Not titled “My deepest despair” or some other histrionic phrase, “Grandpa and Apollo” is “just” an image of an elderly man looking out a window with his dog. Yet this simple image becomes very moving and quite emotional through the lens of a talented photographer.

The simplicity really carries this image far. It shows, in a great way, how truth has a great deal to do with great art. While many times artists will use hyperbole or overly dramatic concepts and processes to propel art, many times they can just as easily find that great shot of an everyday event which carries so much meaning to the viewer when correctly paired with beautiful technical capacity.”

You can read the entire review of the Fort Wayne Photographers exhibit on the Fort Wayne Reader’s website.