Bill Gibson

https://billbgibson.myportfolio.com/

I discovered photography beyond snapshots by 1966, and fell in into obsessive love with photography and gradually became a professional until I saw digital technology making my profession obsolete by 1983. I was a little ahead of my time. After a career teaching biology, math, and chemistry, I have retired to my obsession.

I never developed an interest in making photographs that I could not express in “the print”, along the lines of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Paul Strand, and Art photographers in general. I have mixed feelings about the Art World, but I love photographs, and music, and all the products of the imagination and emotion.

I could not make photographs without a darkroom. The darkroom was as important as the camera. Transparencies and periodicals were not enough for me, although I do love photo books. Digital photography has restored my ability to make images, and I enjoy learning how to do it all over again, and especially the total freedom to use color and refine an edit with non-destructively. I grew up in a mature photographic technology, and was drawn toward large formats and older processes, but now I am always catching up to and experimenting with rapidly evolving technology. There is no drawback to digital photography, other than the fact it does not have the caché of an antique process.