March 22, 2007

Street Photography Lecture

On 3/20/07 I presented my lecture "Street Photography - History and Practice" to the Cheltenham Camera Club. It was well received and I am looking forward to judging the club members' own street photos on 4/10/07. I will also be presenting my lecture "Out of the Smoke" (scroll down to the 3/4/07 entry for a description) at the Club's Annual Banquet on 6/05/07.

March 16, 2007

Phillips Mill 15th Annual Photographic Exhibition

Two of my images have been accepted for the 15th Annual Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition . Approximately 150 images were selected from over 900 submitted. The images are shown below: Easton PA and Princeton NJ. The latter image was honored with the Creative Digital Award. Click on the thumbnails for larger image.

March 04, 2007

"Out of the Smoke" Lecture

On Monday 2/19/07 I presented my lecture Out of the Smoke - Pittsburgh Projects and Photographers to the Churchville PA Photography Club. The lecture covered the history of documenting the environmental excesses and then the efforts to clean up Pittsburgh that began in earnest in the 1950's. Featured were works by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers, home-grown modernist Luke Swank, the Pittsburgh Photographic Library project which saw Roy Stryker bring his talented band of photographers to the city, and, finally, the brilliant and obsessive W. Eugene Smith's self-defined Pittsburgh project which he conceived as the photographic equivalent of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

March 19, 2006

PMPE 2006 Entry

I have been notified that my image J+E+C+C has been accepted in the 2006 PMPE (Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition) and honored with one of the Juror's Awards.
The exhibition opens May 14 in New Hope PA and features ~150 entries chosen from the over 1000 submitted.

December 14, 2005

Guest Judge at Cheltenham Camera Club

I was invited to judge the contest "Reflections" at the Cheltenham Camera Club's December 13 meeting. There was a good turnout of participants and photographs. From the feedback letter I received, an informative good time was had by all.

June 22, 2005

Becky Bliss Photographs

Cuban Popular and Folkloric dancer Becky Bliss has included some of my photos on her Dance Classes web site. The photos were taken at the Princeton NJ Public Library on 4/3/5 She is an exciting dancer whose personality easily communicates through the camera. Becky's Site

April 04, 2005

Phillip's Mill Photographic Exhibition

Russ' image One Hour Photo from the New Street Photography series has been accepted for the 13th Annual Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition in New Hope, PA. The exhibition runs from May 15 through June 5. Refer to their web site for hours: Phillips' Mill 157 photos were chosen from the over 1200 submitted.

The Fine Arts Photography of Russ Armstrong

Unmediated Images

I'm Russ Armstrong, a Fine Arts Photographer working in Philadelphia and Southeastern PA. This is the space on the site where it is customary to place an "Artist's Statement." Such statements represent a genre that should, quite frankly, be banned. Such statement are not as useful, say, as instructions for microwaving processed meals and, although equivalent in cultural heft, are not as entertaining as limericks. Misleading at best, most artist's statements are testaments to the human capacity for meaningless blather. At their worst they are pretentious or just plain silly and actively interfere with the viewer's experience of the work in question. So, gentle viewer, please browse at your leisure, confident that there will be little attempt to sully the potential purity of your experience as you contemplate the images herein.