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A Life of Moments
Memory defines our personal sense of self. Photography does that for a family, a community or sometimes an entire world. But capturing key moments in a world that has moved from the darkroom to the smartphone in a generation takes a special eye.
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Lotte Jacobi’s America: Images of her Adopted Land
As guest curator, Samson aims to make this showing different by focusing on Jacobi’s post emigration photography, adding that “it will be great to share her particular vision of America through rarely seen images of the leading intellectuals, writers, artists and performers of the 20th century that she engaged and photographed in her own distinctive approach to photographic portraiture.”
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NH Captured in Still
Photographers Gary Samson and Michael Sterling talk with The Creators host, Tom Jackson about NH NOW, a photo project documenting NH's photographic legacy through images that define the state in powerful moments around the Granite State today. Micheal Sterling is the president of the NH Society of Photographic Artists - NHSPA.org - which hosts NH Now.
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NHSPA & Granite Stater’s Lives
The New Hampshire Society of Photographic Artists has launched an 18-month photography project to document the lives of people in the Granite State: the culture, architecture, landscape, and events throughout New Hampshire.
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THE SOUL OF A SUBJECT
During his trips, students take between 2,000 and 4,000 photos on a variety of subjects like architecture, graffiti, culture, and portraits. And in the end, Samson works closely with them to produce a book of each student’s work. This approach, according to Samson, allows him to become familiar with each student, to draw out their talents, to make photography personal.
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New Hampshire CHRONICLE
“A local professor can be thanked every time you take a photo with your phone or digital camera. Tonight we take a look at how that technology has taken the art-form of photography into the 21st century…”
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PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Samson’s work at NHIA has had a profound impact on a generation of young photography students. Samson has created an undergraduate photography program that teaches students traditional darkroom and film techniques while exposing them to the latest new technologies: from the daguerreotype to the digital.
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NHPR Interview
“Well, I have always felt that one of the roles that I should play as an artist resident of the state for my life is to advocate for the arts, and now I have an official platform with this honor.”
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NH Artist Laureate
Samson has taught both digital and traditional film based photography courses and workshops regionally and internationally since 1981. His career in photography started in 1971 at the University of New Hampshire where he served as the University Filmmaker and Manager of Photography.
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