C H A R L E S D E N N I S
Charles (Charlie) Dennis Born 5/21/52, Royal Oak Michigan, grew up in Bloomfield Hills in suburban Detroit.
Resides with his wife and son in Raleigh, North Carolina
Charles (Charlie) Dennis has been creating photographic images since age 10. At age 15, he began a life long pursuit to study both the artistry and technical applications required in becoming a master of black and white photography.
Upon moving to North Carolina in 1993 with his wife and son, he became captivated with a small island off the NC coast called Bald Head Island. With a long and colorful history of harboring pirates and saving ships from grounding themselves along its dangerous shoals, Bald Head Island is a rare jewel of exotic forests and spectacular beaches. Charles and his family have vacationed on the island for many years preferring the quiet and isolation of the winter months.
Charlie is now wheelchair bound after 32 years of battling Rheumatoid Arthritis making trips to Bald Head more difficult. To continue his deep connection with the island from the confines of his home in Raleigh, he has selected a series of dramatic images to produce for a limited edition acquisition.
Utilizing over thirty years experience as a commercial printing executive and innovator, Charlie draws from an unparalleled depth of knowledge in merging the artistry of his photography with the very complex details of fine art reproduction. Throughout his profession as a printer, he has produced many products for the arts communities ranging from posters, fine prints and books. It seemed only natural to create a body of his own work at this time and this Bald Head Island series is a most poignant representation of his passions for nature and fine art photography.
The Bald Head Island images have been made over the past ten years. All prints are black and white and are produced to the highest archival standards available for fine prints. Production for the prints is a digital application using quadtone archival carbon pigment inks. They are printed on 100% cotton watercolor archival heavy weight paper stock and are also available on traditional silver-print fiber base stocks upon request.
The new correct museum nomenclature for these prints is "digital carbon - pigment prints". It employs the best of both disciplines; traditional film and state of the art computer controlled printing. With an experienced film technician, these new processes are better and substantially more stable than those of recent past. An archival digital print has proven to have and a more stable existence and longer life than that of traditional silver prints (Wilhelm Institute). The artists now employing these new procedures to their fullest potential using carbon pigment inks and archival papers offer to the collector a superior quality image that will last several lifetimes. Further, these new digital prints are capable of producing the slight nuances and subtleties of detail found only in a fine negative surpassing the depth and beauty of fine gravure prints made over the last century.