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"Photography allows me to recreate the natural world in the |
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| way that I see it -and to share it -with other people. While I |
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| color -and design, -I still want the viewer to feel the wonder |
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Charles Dexter’s work is inspired by the photographic traditions of the Sierra Club and his art history courses in college. He is self trained.
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He joined the New York City Sierra Club Photography Committee in 1992. His photography is enriched by his continuing association with many of its members and the influence of their work. He is a past chairman of that group. |
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Charles developed a love for high places, wilderness, and |
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the magic of photography as he explored the high cliffs of the Palisades, north of Alpine, New Jersey. Throughout |
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the four seasons, he kept returning to the same mile and a half length of cliffs. |
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observing the slow, continuing transformation of light, foliage and weather on the unchanging rock formations over time. |
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| From these cliffs, he discovered a wealth of evolving nature to observe with his camera. |
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To this day Charles continues his photographic exploration |
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| of both vast and intimate landscapes found in the Hudson |
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Delaware River valley
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an Outward Bound course in Colorado, he also photographs |
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His solo photography exhibits at Berkeley College in New York City, and at the Greenbrook Sanctuary in Tenafly, NJ, were well received. He also exhibited in many of the NYC Sierra Club Photography Committee group shows. |
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Charles Dexter’s photographs have been published in Audubon Magazine and by the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club. -His work is also featured on CD album covers for Sonoton Music Productions. He photographed dance performances for Serena Mid East Dance Theater and Multigravitational Aero Dance Group. |
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He works as a freelance music and sound effects editor for video and film. He graduated from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in filmmaking and cinematography.
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He produced, filmed and edited three, 30 minute, |
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16mm, documentary productions. One of them, |
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Ascend the Bells, is about climbing the Maroon Bells |
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My photographs are organized, by subject, into nine portfolios of twelve. Each image can be seen enlarged in a series of individual gallery panels. Click Portfolios. |
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The images on this page, and other pages in this site, can also be seen enlarged in a series of individual gallery panels. Click Site Photos
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