Roman Loranc: Absolution

Winner of Three Awards! 2013 United States Literary Award for Fine Art Photography, "Gold Award Sappi Printer of the Year" for outstanding reproductions and "Best of Category" at Printing Industries of America Show. "Roman Loranc is spiritually alive and poised as one of the few romantics commanding attention today. In serious art photography it is rare that a contemporary photographer continues with the time-tested techniques of chemical/optical processes, but such is the case with Roman Loranc who pursues his work with exceptional technique and style" Peter C. Bunnell McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art Emeritus, Princeton Former Curator of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York Roman Loranc draws upon cultural tradition and profound emotion to create a timeless legacy of beautifully crafted photographs of Europe. Loranc immigrated to California in the early 1980's. During the 1990's, he received acclaim for working with the Nature Conservatory to document the fragile beauty of the vanishing wetlands of California's Central Valley. Nearly twenty years after his arrival in California, Loranc began returning to Europe to visually explore both the unique countryside and architecture of his homeland,including the atmospheric interiors of its churches and sacred spaces. Absolution is a collection of the haunting results of Loranc's return to his native land and the visual journeys made over the ensuing decade. The essay is contributed by Dr. Anthony Bannon, who served for sixteen years as the Director f the George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House and continues as its Senior Scholar and Honorary Trustee. Loranc's award-winning monograph, Fractal Photographs from Two Decades was published by Photography West Graphics in 2009.