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Photos to Inspire: Lorne Resnick
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Sep 1, 2006
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Award-winning photographer Lorne Resnick was born and
raised in Toronto, Canada. His passion for travel and photography keeps
him moving around the globe exploring different cultures and countries,
capturing unique moments with his camera.
Self-taught for the
most part, he began his career photographing rock concerts in his home
town of Toronto, capturing peak moments in the all-consuming fire and
flash that is live rock and roll, featuring performers from Bruce
Springsteen to Madonna. These images were published in his first book, Live in Concert: 10 years of Rock and Roll.
His
pursuit of unique and compelling images has led him to Papua New
Guinea, Vietnam, Greenland, Cuba, China, across Europe and 22 countries
in Africa.
He has lived in Amsterdam for six years working on
commercial projects. He's also spent over a year in Cuba and
Africa working on long-term book projects, which you can explore
further on his commercial website at lorneresnick.com.
Resnick’s
striking commercial and fine-art images have been exhibited in
galleries across Europe and America, and have been used commercially
for annual reports, billboards, television, web sites and for worldwide
advertising campaigns.
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From his first book of photographs, Live in Concert: 10 years of Rock and Roll, published in 1987, to his latest work-in-progress, Cuba Dreaming,
scheduled for publication in 2006, Lorne Resnick has always strived to
create images that probe beyond the everyday facade to capture the
essential meaning and character of his subjects.
"The
authenticity of the moment is what I'm after, and I'm obsessed with
what makes one moment more special than another," says the Los
Angeles-based commercial and fine art photographer. "There's great joy
in capturing a particular unique moment in time that represents an
impacting emotion. It's a fascinating process."
Well-established
as a commercial and fine art photographer, the 44-year-old Resnick's
interest in photography grew out of his love for music and travel. "I
went to a lot of concerts in my hometown of Toronto, and I started
shooting because of a real urge I had to capture that 'decisive
moment," recalls Resnick, whose rock book featured more than 60 bands.
"When my book came out, it became my introduction to photography, and
through music I transitioned into doing a lot of traveling."
To See a Gallery of Lorne Resnick's Images, Click Here
His
first big trip was an overland journey to Africa, a continent that
remains one of his favorite photographic destinations. I was away for a
year, and drove from Amsterdam to Capetown, and returned with 200 rolls
of black and white film," he says. "I then spent the next six months in
the darkroom." It was many such intensive experiences in the darkroom,
and the extraordinary quality of current digital capture, that led
Resnick to largely switch to shooting digitally.
"I
like to spend a considerable period of time observing and searching for
moments and behaviors that I would be less aware of if I weren't trying
to capture that one special shot," says Resnick, much of whose early
Africa work was photographed with infrared film to capture a new look
and feel beyond ordinary wildlife images. “It takes time to get to that
deeper level. It’s the same with people, it takes time to get to know
an individual well enough to represent his or her true character in an
image."
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Resnick currently divides his time
between ongoing assignment work and fine art photography. “Half of my
work is commercial and half is fine art, the distinction depends on
whether an assignment is client driven or driven by myself and my
ideas,” he says. "I try to bring my own aesthetic into how I shoot in
both areas."
Resnick is currently busy completing what could be
described as his magnum opus, a comprehensive book on Cuba, its people
and culture. He first visited the island in 1995, and during subsequent
visits has taken an estimated 20,000 images. "I fell in love with the
country," he says. "I spent two months there during my first visit and
have been back since then at least a dozen times.”
When completed, Cuba Dreaming: Life in the Moment,
will feature upwards of 250 black and white and color images, a CD with
music, along with numerous DVD interviews with Cuban people. "It will
be a powerful, colorful book with the dynamic feel of Cuba,” says
Resnick, "I try to use the camera as a bridge of connection to people,
and I hope the book itself will help bridge the gap in understanding
between Cuba and the rest of the world."
Resnick recently won the 2005 Travel Photographer of the Year
award and now lives and works in Los Angeles as a commercial and fine
art photographer - when not being nibbled on by small baby tigers,
elephants and his newborn son.
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Inside Lorne Resnick’s Camera Bag:
• Cameras—Canon D1 Mark II and D1s Mark II
• Lenses—(all Canon) 80-200mm 2.8L Zoom, 16-35mm 2.8L Zoom, 24-70mm 2.8L Zoom, 100mm 2.8L, 85mm 1.2L
• Lighting—Canon 580EX Speedlight, Canon Ringlight, two 750-watt studio strobes
• Technical—Macintosh Desktop G5, 30-inch cinema display, and Adobe Photoshop CS2.
To see more of Lorne Resnick's images, visit http://www.resnickfineart.com.
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