Posts by Mark Dunham

HomePortfolio riverrun Broken Dreams Observations Close @ Hand High Tension Terrene Faces of San Pedro Shoe Shine Parlor Early Work Slab DwellersReviews/Press Time Out of Mind Ray Carofano / Photographic Artist Terra Phantasma : The Photographs of Ray Carofano Photographer Exposes a Watershed with ‘RiverRun’ Exhibit Riverrun Photography by Ray Carofano Personal Alchemies: The Photographic…

Through a Lens, Darkly, Part II A conversation with San Pedro photographer Ray Carofano by Bondo Wyszpolski   In Carofano’s personal statement, he has this to say about his darkroom work: “All of my prints are silver gelatin. I hand-manipulate them in selective areas during the exposure of the photographic paper. I then split-tone the…

A conversation with San Pedro photographer Ray Carofano by Bondo Wyszpolski Ray Carofano is looking at an image he’s titled “Broken Palms.” It’s on the postcard that announces Terrene, his one-man show of large-scale photographic prints that opens tonight at the Warschaw Gallery in San Pedro. “You can see that these three palm trees are…

Desolation Row: the many faces of Ray Carofano By Bondo Wyszpolski “Phil #2,” from the “Faces of Pedro” series, photographed by Ray Carofano   There were railroad tracks behind the church – and that’s never a good sign. Young Ray Carofano saw older men gathered there, talking, cooking; sometimes they’d hop on a train and…