{"id":34807,"date":"2026-07-19T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=34807"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:29:52","slug":"competition-zoom-theme-industrial-with-judge-russyoung","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/event\/competition-zoom-theme-industrial-with-judge-russyoung\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition: (Zoom) Theme: Industrial with Judge Russ Young"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I began photography as the high school yearbook photographer using a 4×5 Speed Graphic; the very definition of immersion. My senior year, I worked after school as the darkroom monkey for a commercial & 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

Saint Andrews University (Scotland) granted me a Ph.D. in art history for my dissertation on soft focus lenses and Pictorialism. file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/russ\/Downloads\/WRussellYoungPhDThesis.pdf<\/a> (warning: reading it has been known to induce narcolepsy). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Royal Photographic Society denominated me as a Fellow about 20 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 & 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\n\n

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