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LITHIC, 2016
Photographer: Julius Kassovic, photojulius.com
$195 for framed 11x14 print
(From the long-term project Intimate Waterscapes.)
Julius Kassovic is a fine-art photographer based in Silver Spring, MD. Since 2005, Sligo Creek (running through Silver Spring and Takoma Park, MD) has been his major muse and subject of his series of photographs Intimate Waterscapes.
Julius was introduced to fundamentals of photography in high school so he could shoot pictures for the school newspaper and yearbook. On a 4x5 Graflex, he learned to load black and white sheet film into its film holders, compose effectively, and use darkroom equipment to develop and print. He has not been without a camera close-at-hand since.
His photographic skills were honed as an undergraduate by assisting the studio photographer in a museum, by illustrating his graduate ethnographic fieldwork, and by documenting people and projects while working around the world with Peace Corps. Living and working among other peoples and cultures has had a profound effect on his outlook, and therefore on his photography. He tries to look beyond surface impressions to glimpse underlying images and meaning.
He has exhibited his photographs in juried shows regionally at the University of Maryland, Penn State University, The Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick. and the Circle Gallery in Annapolis, and has had solo shows in Maryland at The Blackrock Center for the Arts in Germantown, the Brighton Dam Gallery in Brookville, VisArts in Rockville and the Adkins Arboretum in Ridgely. A number of his photographs have also been selected for exhibit in galleries in New York, Vermont, Oregon and California, including a photograph in Best of Nature 2013 at the San Diego Museum of Natural History. In November three of his photographs were juried into the 13th Annual Pollux Awards in Barcelona, and all three were awarded Honorable Mention.
In 2016 he was honored to be one of 50 photographers (from 1900+ entries) selected to have six photographs included in the book SEEING IN SIXES, published by LensWork and edited by Brooks Jensen and Maureen Gallagher. In 2017, he was selected again. The first year they chose six tree reflection photographs; the next year, it was leaves in the waters of the creek.
Recent Exhibits:
February, 2020, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD - Focal Point
October, 2019: FotoNostrum, Barcelona – three photographs judged Honorable Mention at the 13th annual Pollux Gala Awards
June-July 2019, WSSC Headquarters, Laurel, MD
April, 2019 (2018, 2017), ArtHop, Takoma Park, MD
April, 2019, Brighton Dam Gallery, WSSC, Brookville, MD - Watershed Photographs.
Solo exhibit
Jan-Feb, 2019, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD - Focal Point
July-August, 2018, Blackrock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD - Natural Abstractions. Solo exhibit
Nov–Dec, 2017: LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR - Nature's Way
July-August, 2017: PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT - Portals
February, 2017: Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD - Focal Point
Recent Publications:
2017: SEEING IN SIXES, LensWork Publishing; six photographs.
2016: SEEING IN SIXES, LensWork Publishing; six photographs.
2009: Cover, Takoma Park Budget
LITHIC, 2016
Photographer: Julius Kassovic, photojulius.com
$195 for framed 11x14 print
(From the long-term project Intimate Waterscapes.)
Julius Kassovic is a fine-art photographer based in Silver Spring, MD. Since 2005, Sligo Creek (running through Silver Spring and Takoma Park, MD) has been his major muse and subject of his series of photographs Intimate Waterscapes.
Julius was introduced to fundamentals of photography in high school so he could shoot pictures for the school newspaper and yearbook. On a 4x5 Graflex, he learned to load black and white sheet film into its film holders, compose effectively, and use darkroom equipment to develop and print. He has not been without a camera close-at-hand since.
His photographic skills were honed as an undergraduate by assisting the studio photographer in a museum, by illustrating his graduate ethnographic fieldwork, and by documenting people and projects while working around the world with Peace Corps. Living and working among other peoples and cultures has had a profound effect on his outlook, and therefore on his photography. He tries to look beyond surface impressions to glimpse underlying images and meaning.
He has exhibited his photographs in juried shows regionally at the University of Maryland, Penn State University, The Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick. and the Circle Gallery in Annapolis, and has had solo shows in Maryland at The Blackrock Center for the Arts in Germantown, the Brighton Dam Gallery in Brookville, VisArts in Rockville and the Adkins Arboretum in Ridgely. A number of his photographs have also been selected for exhibit in galleries in New York, Vermont, Oregon and California, including a photograph in Best of Nature 2013 at the San Diego Museum of Natural History. In November three of his photographs were juried into the 13th Annual Pollux Awards in Barcelona, and all three were awarded Honorable Mention.
In 2016 he was honored to be one of 50 photographers (from 1900+ entries) selected to have six photographs included in the book SEEING IN SIXES, published by LensWork and edited by Brooks Jensen and Maureen Gallagher. In 2017, he was selected again. The first year they chose six tree reflection photographs; the next year, it was leaves in the waters of the creek.
Recent Exhibits:
February, 2020, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD - Focal Point
October, 2019: FotoNostrum, Barcelona – three photographs judged Honorable Mention at the 13th annual Pollux Gala Awards
June-July 2019, WSSC Headquarters, Laurel, MD
April, 2019 (2018, 2017), ArtHop, Takoma Park, MD
April, 2019, Brighton Dam Gallery, WSSC, Brookville, MD - Watershed Photographs.
Solo exhibit
Jan-Feb, 2019, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD - Focal Point
July-August, 2018, Blackrock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD - Natural Abstractions. Solo exhibit
Nov–Dec, 2017: LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR - Nature's Way
July-August, 2017: PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT - Portals
February, 2017: Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD - Focal Point
Recent Publications:
2017: SEEING IN SIXES, LensWork Publishing; six photographs.
2016: SEEING IN SIXES, LensWork Publishing; six photographs.
2009: Cover, Takoma Park Budget