Crombie McNeill “Klondike Ghost Towns” Gallery Opening – Vistek Ottawa
Featuring never before exhibited images from Crombie McNeill’s “Klondike Ghost Towns” photo series.
Date and time:
Sat, Dec 16, 2023 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
Location:
Vistek Ottawa – 499 Bank Street Ottawa, ON K2P 1Z2
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The “Klondike Ghost Towns” was a personal adventure, never before exhibited or published. On display are 20 13×19 prints on Hahnemühle papers from scans from 35mm Kodachrome. The brilliance and colour depth of these images are truly beautiful. I didn’t do a lot. I had the majesty of the Yukon with incredibly beautiful autumn light, then the unsurpassed color of Kodachrome 64. These images shot 54 years ago have an historical value in that what you’ll see has simply vanished.
About Crombie McNeill
Crombie McNeill is a unique artist. He’s a world travelled photographer with numerous awards and has been recognized as one of the best editorial photographers in North America. His credits include Time, Newsweek, ELLE, Life, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Chatelaine, Paris Match, McLean’s, En Route to name but a few.
His Odyssey lead him from the Arctic to high fashion magazine shoots to Olympic Games, World Cup events, the depths of the Great Barrier Reef to the altitude with the Snow Birds, interwoven with civil war in Africa, Royalty, presidents to paupers world wide. Not to mention frozen toes at the North Pole.
His photography has been exhibited in galleries across Canada, the United States and Europe and has three books to his credit.
Not one to leave behind the uniqueness of traditional film he’s evolved a blending of photography with both hand applied and computer processing to produce truly unique images.
“The art of photography for me” says Crombie “is to convey a timeless essence with a hint of mystery”.
The National Archives predicts he will be credited as one of Canada’s most significant photographers and is on the list for The Order of Canada. The National Art Gallery of Canada has some of his fine art b&w prints included in their permanent collection.
Crombie is now happily retired, in that he no longer accepts editorial or commercial assignments He now lives in Aylmer, with his wife Sue. “This retirement”, he’s delighted to says, “allows me the freedom to search for those magical b&w images, and to determine the ideal technique by which it should be captured and presented.
Crombie often returns to the peaceful amber glow of his wet darkroom as a respite from his extensive digital lab and art board.
