12539 Arnsley Court

Oak Hill, Virginia 20171 USA

Telephone: 703.216.0178

Email: RedRoomStudios@nospam!#*&^#)type address - don't copy spam protection(*@.@nospamverizon.net

A professional portrait and event photographer, Charles Neenan, who resides in northern Virginia, is also a mixed media artist. He combines photography and digital painting to create his line of Art for the 21st Century™. Like artists that use oil, pen, acrylic, and other more "traditional" art media to tell stories, his art works are created with the computer screen as canvas, and hi-res digital cameras, lenses, and graphics software as brushes. He uses Canon and Olympus digital cameras.

Well traveled throughout the U.S. and countries on four continents, his photography and art have been influenced by a mixture of cultures, from London to Kuala Lumpur, from Sydney to Seattle, and from Manhattan to Madrid. A past Board member of the Vienna Photographic Society, he is also a past Board Member of the League of Reston Artists and the Reston Photographic Society. In May 2007 he formed the informal Creative Photographers' Society for both photographers and artists residing in the Washington, D.C. Metro area. To give back something to the Arts and Photography communities, he is also a certified diplomate competition judge for the Northern Virginia Alliance of Camera Clubs (NVACC), and judges professional and amateur competitions in Maryland and Virginia. He coined The Immutable First Law of Judging, which states: "Judging of artistic endeavors is an exercise fraught with subjectivity, that can change daily." 

Through his Red Room Studios, he conducts individually-tailored digital photography and PhotoShop tutoring classes for both the amateur and advanced photographer, serious in advancing their craft. One sector of his business is working with painters and 3-D artists desiring to photograph and publish/print their own works. In early 2007 he started presenting lectures and symposia on his thoughts on photography and digital imaging to Arts and Photography organizations throughout the Washington, D.C. Metro area.

His photography and art hangs in offices and residences up and down the East Coast. In Fall 2007, he exhibited his most technically avant garde image (to date), Time Warp 3792 CE, in a one-month multimedia show at the Arts Club of Washington with other artists from the US, South America, and Europe. Transcendence, a unique photograph of light and shape, was juried into the Fairfax Arts Council Exhibition at the GRACE Gallery, Reston Town Center, Virginia, as one of 23 chosen works. He has been featured on the Photographers of Northern Virginia television program, and participated in the DC Art Expo, in Washington, D.C. In October 2006, he had a one-man show in Reston, exhibiting 30+ works of traditional photography and pre-PhotoGrafix™art. His landscape of Meadowlark Gardens was the cover for the 2007 Herndon, Virginia Town Planner calendar. He was published in Thinking About Art: The One Word Project, compiled by J. T. Kirkland. In addition to his observations on Tradition, the book featured the early digitally-enhanced film image, Nuclear San Francisco.