Join photographer Frans Lanting in conversation with Weston Gallery artist Kenneth Parker on Thursday, July 11, 3:30pm-5:30pm at Monterey Museum of Art on Pacific Street.
Lanting and Parker will discuss Frans's Bay of Life project in the context of the Monterey Legacy Photographers, who created a new look in photography while establishing a distinctive sense of place. How is a new generation of photographers reshaping our perspective on the Monterey Bay region, from the coast to the interior? Audience participation will be an essential part of this provocative conversation.
Tickets are $5 for MMA members, students, military, youth under 18, and SNAP participants with EBT card. $20 general admission (includes admission pass to the museum). Purchase tickets here.
The Bay of Life project combines art with conservation through education and engagement for the purpose of contributing to a sustainable future for Monterey Bay as a whole.
Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of the great photographers of our time. His influential work appears in books, magazines, and exhibitions around the world. Lanting's work has been commissioned frequently by National Geographic, where he served as Photographer-in-Residence.
His assignments have ranged from a first look at the fabled bonobos of the Congo to a circumnavigation by sailboat of South Georgia Island in the subantarctic. He has lived for month with seabirds on isolated atolls in the Pacific Ocean, tracked lions through the African night, and camped among giant tortoises inside a volcano in the Galapagos.
Photographer Kenneth Parker is a large format landscape colorist working principally in remote pristine wilderness areas throughout the world where he has trekked and kayaked extensively. He is inexorably drawn to the elemental earth/ocean forces and their compelling magic, translating into arresting imagery the depths of these feelings, rich in power, radiant.
His early experience as Eliot Porter’s field assistant helped to nurture a loving eye devoted to isolating and capturing the mysteries in nature that he struggled for decades to unravel as a publishing research scientist in oceanography and climate change.
