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Current Exhibitions: TBA
Recent Exhibitions:
Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard
Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard
Meg Bodnar first picked up a camera at the age of 16. She is essentially self-taught. Consistently producing photographic work for the past 10 years, Meg draws on the inspiration of the mountains and sea surrounding her in Telluride and Martha's Vineyard as well as the training she received at the University of California at Berkeley's San Francisco campus, her experience at Santa Fe Workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and her involvement in other photographic workshops in Telluride.
"I take photographs because it is the best way I know how to absorb my surroundings so that I can share them with others. I love photographs because each captures a fleeting instant in our fast-paced lives that would otherwise have been forgotten. When I find myself fortunate enough to be in a place of great beauty or energy, light and film are the best resources for me to translate what is happening so others can experience it too. The world offers an abundance of visual stimuli. Just staying in one place, you could find millions of extraordinary images. The challenge is in the seeing and the translating. To paraphrase one of the great photographers, Henri Cartier-Bresson, taking a meaningful photograph requires the simultaneous convergence of one's head, one's eye and one's heart through the instrument of the camera. This simple idea is my inspiration."
Meg was recognized as an "up and coming" artist by the Ah Haa School for the Arts in Telluride and was featured in their annual "As The Crow Flies" exhibit in October 2002. Her color photography work has been seen in Telluride regional magazines and websites. Her black and white work can be found at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. Select black & white images hang in corporate and private collections, including those of Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington D.C., and William Clay Ford, Jr., chairman & CEO, Ford Motor Company.
Meg recently moved from Telluride and currently lives in Martha's Vineyard with her husband, Jay and their black lab, Soot.
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