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Ray LeBlanc Photography Exhibit at Hutchins Library

by Angel Rivera on 2019-10-10T12:43:59-04:00 in Arts & Crafts | 0 Comments

Hutchins Library is hosting local photographer Ray LeBlanc's work in our central display area through the month of October 2019. This exhibit is free and open to the public. Note that the photographs are for sale. Anyone interested in purchasing can contact the photographer directly. There is contact information for the artist in the display area.

 

Selection of three photos, various subjects, by Ray LeBlanc

Selection of photos by Ray LeBlanc featured in the library during October

 

Press release (by Dodie Murphy) to learn more about the photograher:

An artist’s reception – free and open to the public – for art photographer Ray LeBlanc [was held] from 4 to 7 PM Thursday, Oct. 3, at Hutchins Library on the Berea College campus. Refreshments will be served. The exhibit closes Oct. 31.

     LeBlanc shoots pictures of beauty, things that are loving and make him happy. He specializes in nature’s flora and fauna, clouds, rain and rainbows, tranquil boats – some surrounded by crab traps – as well as old barns, fences and gates, waterscapes, landscapes and cityscapes, and sunrises and sunsets.

     His photographs were taken throughout Kentucky and all over the world. He’s called an artist by people who are artists, “and it’s very humbling to be called an artist by them,” LeBlanc reflected.

     His eyes see art in a split-second, and in another one it reaches his heart. He wants to keep the memories forever. So, that’s what LeBlanc does: he captures love along with happy and beauty, and what he sees he hopes will capture the heart of others as well. “I want to make them happy, too.”

     A Marine platoon sergeant in the Vietnam War, LeBlanc, who is now 72 and lives in Lexington – yet regularly walks and hikes in Berea – retired after a career in real estate and mortgages. Since America honors veterans in November, only a week or so after his exhibit closes. A friend suggested October to showcase how photography by one amateur, a veteran with a camera as his hobby, became an artistic calling. After all, the root of the word amateur is doing something simply for the love of doing it.

     Sixty thousand photographs, more or less, are stored on his computer and memory cards. He had intended to use retirement to cull his collection and save his favorites, the ones he hopes to remember forever, those loved by family and friends. Right now, though, he’s not culling, he’s perusing and pondering, picking and choosing.

     “It’s fair to say I might be selecting or changing photographs while I’m hanging them. Why, I might even exchange ones for others throughout the show.”

     For more information, LeBlanc’s email is trapmar@hotmail.com. He’s available to answer questions, to educate, to hear suggestions about a patron’s idea of beauty. His work also can be seen on etsy.com; his site there is rayleblancphotograph.

 

 

 

 


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