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WHEN: May 13-June 19. Gallery hours are Friday, 4-8 p.m., Saturday, 12-6 p.m., and Sunday, 12-4 p.m.ĬOST: Boyd’s Station Gallery is free and open to the public. What began as an artist's medication has become a living document of over 6,000 images.
For 20 years, Bradford has worked for the Berry Post Office where he has served his community as a vital member of the distribution chain and as a visual documentarian.
He shatters the monotony of a daily mail route by capturing encounters along the backroads and farm lanes of Harrison County. But parables like this require their makers to burn their bridges and leave common sense. It's goofy, yes, and pretentious, and Kevin Costner puts himself in situations that get snickers. WHAT: The Rural Route Collection is an extensive body of photographs by local Harrison County, Kentucky postman, and photographer Mark Bradford. There are those who will no doubt call The Postman the worst film of the year, but it's too good-hearted for that. Reach photographer Pat McDonogh at IF YOU GO That’s what I’m doing when I take pictures, just sharing the joy that I get," he said. "I just like to take pictures of stuff I like to see. “When I think of pictures, it’s not to show people what I can do, it’s more, look where I get to live my life and enjoy my work. Suddenly there was just this amazing photographer out there with an Instagram feed in Harrison County that we knew nothing about.”įor Bradford, it's not about the newfound acclaim or recognition. Gruber said the nonprofit found Bradford “when he started following Boyd’s Station on Instagram. I mean I’m excited, it’s a great opportunity and I’m happy and privileged. “I’m kind of scared, I guess," he said of having his art shown in two different shows. "I’ve never really done anything like this. Now, Bradford's photos are about to be seen for the first time with shows of his work at the Boyd’s Station Gallery in Cynthiana and the Ki Smith Gallery in SoHo in New York City.
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Gruber, a native of the county, says, “Our main emphasis is to mentor and educate the next generation of photojournalists, learning how to document a county as they did back in the Farm Security Administration years,” during the Great Depression. The nonprofit Boyd’s Station Project was established in 2018 to document Harrison County for years to come with photojournalism students.
I’m not very good with computers or anything like that," Bradford said. "I’m a dinosaur when it comes to technology. You may like: How one Louisville man is challenging the context of Black and Indigenous history Gruber realized that many of Bradford's photos had never been seen, much less downloaded from his phone. "Any of my photos that have peacocks in them, that’s the road, and there are lots of horses as well," he said, adding "it’s an interesting road and it’s maybe two miles, something like that.”įor a long time, Bradford's art was shot mainly for himself, and not seen by others, until Jack Gruber, a USA Today photographer and founder of the Boyd’s Station Project in Harrison County, discovered Bradford’s work. “There’s a tree on a hill that I photograph at least 20 times a year,” Bradford said. “I photograph it every season, from both sides."īradford said that's the same place where he photographs a lot of wildlife, too. One of his favorite places to make photos on his route is Grover Criswell Road, near Sunrise, Kentucky. That red barn along Keith Lane suddenly looked magnificent in a blanket of snow and made him stop, point his iPhone 7 out the window, and capture the image. You may like: Busboy by day, award-winning Cuban artist by night. “I took a little bit of everything, sculpture, painting, drawing, metalsmithing, and photography because I like all different kinds of art," he told The Courier Journal.īut art doesn’t always pay the bills and Bradford needed a real job with a consistent paycheck. You may like: Were quilts used as 'signs' on the Underground Railroad? How this artist explores the mythīradford graduated with a Bachelors-in-Fine-Arts degree from Eastern Kentucky University. I was raised on a farm, and I get to smell the plowed grounds. Marc Postman (born April 6, 1958) is an American astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.His research interests include observational studies of the formation and evolution of galaxies and large scale structure in the universe. “It’s great working in a small town like Berry. People say, ‘well that’s boring,’ yet every day something is different," he said. “I started with the post office 20 years ago and have loved it since the very first day. The budding artist has spent the last several years taking photographs along his 92-mile route. The problem I have is setting/populating the "To" field with a static email.Bradford has turned his own time alone on his rural Kentucky route into a creative outlet for photography. What I want is to create an email record using the CDS Web API.
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