Contact –        hasseyman@juno.com

Website -        http://images-unlimited-direct.com

About the Artist – Following formal training in photography at S. I U. Carbondale, he practiced medical photography in Chicago and Springfield. In 1988, he returned to school to complete a B.A. in Business from Western Illinois University. In February of 1990, he and a partner opened, the Photo Resource Center, a complete photo supply & processing store in Springfield. After 10 years of successful business, Ritchie left the business to his partner to pursue his personal photography.

Each person's vision, his/her view of the world, is unique. A photographer's vision must discern the difference between how the eye sees, and the brain interprets, verses how the camera sees, and the film interprets the scene. Most people see the world as you would skim a page in a book.

They view a stream of images evaluated in general terms. A good photographer must pick and choose among those images and use his tools of camera, film, and light to record unique slices of time that we call photographs.

 

Light is the primary tool of the photographer. The word photography comes from the Greek words meaning "light writing". With B&W images, shadows and texture dominate. A photographer's vision must change from seeing the world in color to visualizing it in shades of grey. This, then, is my personal vision, my discrimination, my confrontation, and my ART. 

Artist Statement - I use traditional black & white photographic tools and techniques. I shoot with medium and large format camera equipment for maximum quality. Once the negatives have been processed, they can be scanned and printed digitally, printed using the archival process on fiber based paper, or printed using the more modern "RC" black & white paper. The differences involve time, cost of materials, and the intended audience.

The archival process involves printing the negatives using double