Robert Campbell is a professional photographer and professional pilot.  Realizing a life-long dream, he took his first flight lesson in 1964 and was flying night cargo, part time, for a small west coast airline by 1967.  During this time, he majored in photography at San Francisco State College, Studying with Don Worth and Jack Welpott.  A summer course with Answl Adams in Yosemite in 1968 led to introduction by Ansel to noted aerial photographer William Garnett.  The die was cast and flying and photography merged in 1968.  He has been specializing in aerial photography since that time.

Sara Friedlander, a Santa Cruz resident for the past 35 years, grew up on the East coast and got her first camera when she was 19. A student at NYU in the late 60’s, she rode the subways daily. Touching elbows, yet avoiding eye contact; so close, so distant, so public, yet so private; she loved the equalizing nature of the subway.
        Sara’s series, Subway Reflexions, is an attempt to capture the chaotic calm, the confused serenity of New York’s subways. Incorporating reflections, she utilizes the windows, the darkness of the tunnels, and the vitality on the platforms to create complex and shifting layers of reality. Mesmerized by the enigma of people in motion, as well as the passage of time, she strives to communicate some of these complexities in each of her pieces. So often our minds filter out the multiple layers of pattern and design which surround us.  The reconstructive nature of Sara’s work depicts the dense reality, which only briefly registers in our unconscious minds.
        As with all her mixed media work, which is photography-based and painted in a photo-realistic style, Friedlander starts digitally as she sorts through 1000’s of photographs and selects 3 or 4 images that might work well together. She prints and then collages these photos onto a prepared wooden panel. By painting around and between the photographs, she creates an imagined vignette, and materializes a moment-in-time experience that holds the viewer in multiple realities at once. She hopes to evoke a visceral experience of that dynamic underground world, which represents such a cross-section of humanity. She calls her process time-lapsed photo-surrealism.

Sara's website is http://www.sarafriedlander.com
She is presently represented by Saret Gallery, Sonoma, CA and Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.