Oaxaca - Images and Echoes

Photo Credit: Richard Wilkins
If you're interested in seeing some beautiful photography, a new exhibit showing the work of Richard Wilkins* opens today and runs through July 24th at the Loading Dock Gallery in Lowell.

In Oaxaca: Images and Echoes, photographs reveal the heart of the ancient Mexican city, Oaxaca (wa-hah-kah).

A portfolio of haunting portraits shot over ten days, landscapes and street scenes, records life where the clothing, jobs, and creations of its people still reflect its indigenous cultures.

Wilkins is a portrait photographer who avoids formal portraits. ā€œI am an opportunistic photographer,ā€ he explains. ā€œI constantly scan the environment and wait for the images to present themselves.ā€

Wilkins received his MS in Journalism from Kent State and his MBA from Harvard. He served in Korea during the Vietnam War. Essentially a self-taught artist, he worked for most of his life in the corporate world.
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Photographer Richard Wilkins
ā€œAs a scruffy kid from the projects, I was fortunate enough to live just blocks away from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and spend time in an after school program there. That experience has had a lasting impact on me and my desire to create art of some kind.ā€

Wilkins lives with his wife in Jamaica Plain, where they enjoy the diversity of the areaā€™s residents, its youthful orientation and the strong presence of artists. He has a studio at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell.

Photo Credit: Richard Wilkins
If you'd like to meet the artist, join him at the opening reception, Friday, July 8, 2011, 6-9pm.


*Richard Wilkins is my uncle and I've written about him here before. His work is amazing and I wish him all the best!


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Comments

Tracy saidā€¦
Such emotion in these photos... I would love to see this exhibit! Happy Day, Lisa ((HUGS))
Lisa Johnson saidā€¦
tracy - He really has a way of capturing so much feeling in his pictures. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the pictures at the exhibit. Happy Day to you too my friend! ; )
SharleneT saidā€¦
These are wonderful -- so expressive with so much NOT being shown. Thanks for sharing.
Lisa Johnson saidā€¦
sharlene - Good to see you! Glad you like them! ; )
Joanna Goddard saidā€¦
these photos are beautiful!
Lisa Johnson saidā€¦
joanna - Welcome! Thank you for the visit and the kind words!
Suldog saidā€¦
You should certainly be very proud to have him as a relative. His work is spectacular. The first shot is truly something I could look at for a long time. The woman, with her gaze toward the distance, and the bleakness of the street... amazing capture of mood.
Josephine saidā€¦
Beautiful images! Talent runs in the family :)
Lisa Johnson saidā€¦
suldog - Yes, I am proud! I'm sure he's so busy right now, but I hope that he can take a look at all these kind comments when he gets a chance.

josephine - Awwww. Thanks. :D

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