 Gifts
from mother and grandmother set my course early on. My grandmother
patiently let a three year old look through the viewfinder of her
box camera and mother loved walks in the woods taking the time to
examine and name whatever we found. The camera never lost its magic
and those little walks became longer hikes and backpacks.
Although father never envisioned his children in the art world
(especially not in the sixties), he did give me my first “real”
camera. And so these two interests were quietly and carefully
nurtured. Encouraged and critiqued by a
cousin who taught photography at an art school, picking brains and
taking classes, learning rules and breaking the same until
opportunity knocked in 1973. That year put me to the test as a
member of a photography department, where more people generously
shared their knowledge. Since then photography has truly become a
passion; and a way of connecting the art of the photograph with the
love of the natural world. To see the universe in a tiny flower, to
wonder at the great beauty of the changing landscape or to distill a
whole into just a piece never loses its wonder. As one of my
instructors said “there is always something out there taking of the
light and giving back its best. Your job is to find it.”
Exhibits & Awards
1974-Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
1983- Frameworks, Cambridge, MA
1984-Traveling Exhibit, California
1989-Lichtner Award, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
1990 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
1996-Juried Member-League of NH Craftsmen
2002-Fuji Masterpiece Award, NHPPA -- "In Memory of Virtue"
2003-Digital Photography Award, NHPPA -- "Dancing Lady Slipper"
2005-Best Photo Award, South Portland, Maine -- "In Memory of Virtue"
2006-1st Place, Photography - E. W. Poore, Juried Show, Manchester, NH -- "In Memory of Virtue"
2006-April, two man show w/ Karen Eitel, Queechee Inn, Queechee, VT
2007-1st Place, Photography - E. W. Poore, Juried Show, Manchester, NH -- "Mice-icles"
2008-3rd Place, Still Life - E. W. Poore, Juried Show, Manchester, NH -- "Sunfower Dreams"
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