Exhibit Features Couples Who Photograph Together

In an exhibit running from February 24 through April 1, Viewpoint presents the work of two couples with very different approaches to photographing together.

Victoria and David Ruderman, whose exhibit is entitled Double Vision, create images completely different in style and content, often while working in the same place at the same time. Victoria photographs with an SX-70 Polaroid camera, manipulating the emulsion on each image to achieve an effect some viewers compare to an impressionist painting, then scans, prints digitally, and hand-colors. David usually works in black-and-white, making silver prints in his darkroom, though he also works in color. He primarily uses medium-format cameras, though he has used 35mm and 4x5 also.

Jo Ann and George Aiello, on the other hand, make images collaboratively, working with a single view camera and printing together in their digital darkroom. Their exhibit is from a 30-year project on the California gold country entitled The Land of Glittering Dreams. “In our images we attempt to portray not the reality of what is, but a sense of what was,” says Jo Ann. “Creating a photograph that somehow interprets and captures that feeling is often the inspiration for our image making.”

Viewpoint will host a Second Saturday reception for the Aiellos and Rudermans on March 11 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.