{"id":34872,"date":"2026-11-14T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/?p=34872"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:33:10","slug":"december-15-2026-competition-zoom-theme-industrial-with-russ-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/december-15-2026-competition-zoom-theme-industrial-with-russ-young\/","title":{"rendered":"December 15, 2026 &#8211; Competition (Zoom) &#8211; Theme: Industrial with Russ Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Portrait-by-Susan-Trulove.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"223\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Portrait-by-Susan-Trulove.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34868\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I began photography as the high school yearbook photographer using a 4&#215;5 Speed Graphic; the very definition of immersion. My senior year, I worked after school as the darkroom monkey for a commercial &amp; industrial photographer. These experiences still shape my imagery as I still shoot film and large format. I taught for The University of Texas at Austin and Ohio Wesleyan University. My specialties are the history of Pictorialism and 19th century printing methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saint Andrews University (Scotland) granted me a Ph.D. in art history for my dissertation on soft focus lenses and Pictorialism.&nbsp;<a>file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/russ\/Downloads\/WRussellYoungPhDThesis.pdf<\/a>&nbsp;(warning: reading it has been known to induce narcolepsy).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Royal Photographic Society denominated me as a Fellow about 20 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Living for 18 years on an isolated farm near The Blue Ridge, landscapes have been the primary subject of my cameras. Although I capture the landscape with both film and digital, the vast majority of my images are black &amp; white. Impossible to avoid, I use PhotoShop and its ilk minimally. My photographs have been viewed in both one-person exhibitions and group shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began photography as the high school yearbook photographer using a 4&#215;5 Speed Graphic; the very definition of immersion. 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