STL photographers show off works
BY: HIBA OBEED
Art & Life Editor
BY: ASHER VOGT
Staff Writer
The St. Louis Camera Club hosted by Kristin Peterson opened for viewing on Aug. 28, with its reception taking place on Sept. 18 in the Humanities East Lobby. The exhibit showed photos from several different St. Louis photographers ranging from portraiture to architecture and landscape. One such photographer is Bruce Backus, who has participated in several of these galleries.
“Kristin Peterson has endowed this lectureship that happens every year. This is the 12th year,” said Backus.
The exhibit featured the top photographers of the region according to Backus. “It’s an opportunity for your students to learn and see. They also bring the people in to talk to the art students as artisan residents, to give them some background on how they create the art that’s presented here,” he said.
Another photographer who participated in the gallery is Retha Meier, who has done research on orchids for over 25 years. “The ones I usually do research on are cypripedium. It has this modified pedal called the labellum,” Meier said.
Meier is particularly concerned with the preservation and importance of these flowers and their role in pollination. “My message is that people should admire them when they find them in nature, but not dig them up and take them home, and also preserve as much orchid habitat as we possibly can,” Meier said.
The show represented over 111 years of photography, according to Backus, including history shots that dated back to the 1800s.
“We are here to share that physical art that they put up on the wall and hopefully it excites some of the students and some of the community that comes in,” Backus said.
