Jack’s Video Sports Bar

Guest Photographer — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:24:03 +0000

Deindustrialization has resulted in widespread social and economic changes. The remnants of Jack’s ornate sign and building architecture serve as a reminder that this fallen neighborhood was once vibrant and alive. It is both fascinating and bittersweet to imagine past times here. Now, a single set of footsteps in a dusting of snow pass by without stopping, in juxtaposition to the workers from the East Cleveland Railroad Power House, visible in the left background, who would have once gathered here after a hard day of making things. In the distance, the top of the modern Key Tower skyscraper shines like a beacon against sympathetic skies, contrasting where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re heading.

Jack’s Video Sports Bar, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2015 – © Bret Culp

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Photo is © Bret Culp

Guest Photographer Bio
Bret Culp

Bret Culp is a distinguished fine art photographer known for dramatic black and white photographs that evoke nostalgia, contemplation, and appreciation for the fleeting nature of existence. Additionally, he has gained recognition for his colourful solargraphs, a unique technique capturing the sun’s dynamic movement across the sky over months, transforming the passage of time into mesmerizing, abstract visual records.

Blog / Website: The Beauty of Impermanence – Bret Culp Photography

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Ireland – Between Heaven and Earth

Guest Artist — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:30:09 +0000

The mythic Irish landscape and its people have had a profound impact on one another. The Celts saw the land as a living source of wisdom, beauty and transformative spiritual power.

The Dark Hedges, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 2011 © Bret Culp

Among the first to believe in the eternal nature of the human spirit they constructed monuments to death, rebirth and the cycles of the seasons and stars. These vestiges of the past continue to resonate through the countryside today.

Temporal And Eternal, Poulnabrone Dolmen, The Burren, Clare, Ireland, 2009 © Bret Culp

Castles, fortresses and ruins are evidence of untold invasions and conflicts throughout a tumultuous history. Beautifully poignant in the process of decay they tell their own story and possess their own mortality. Nothing that belongs to the earth is ever free from it. The sacred connection between the landscape of Ireland and its people has not disappeared over the centuries.

Dunluce Castle, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 2012 © Bret Culp

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Bret Culp Artist Bio

Bret Culp’s haunting black and white photographs convey the beauty of impermanence, the central theme of his work. Through his diverse travels Bret seeks scenes of a transitory nature. From the ruins of Ireland, to a 9000-year-old cave town in southern Italy, to the mist-covered hills of Tuscany during the harvest – his poetic vision is akin to scenes from a film. It should then not be a surprise that Bret is also a Director and award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor, recently acting as second unit director and Visual Effects Supervisor on The Tudors, for which he has received two Best Visual Effects Gemini Awards and two more nominations over the four year run of the show.

The recipient of numerous awards and honours, Bret’s photographs have been shown in solo, juried and special event exhibitions in galleries and museums in Canada, the United States and abroad. His work has been internationally published in magazines such as LensWork, USA, and Photographers’ Companion, China, and is held in public and private collections around the world.

Bret was born in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada. He studied Film and Photography at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

Blog / Website: Bret Culp Photography – The Beauty Of Impermanence

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LIFE AS A HUMAN

Jack’s Video Sports Bar

Ireland – Between Heaven and Earth