Artist: Walter Wallace Sallenger | Location: Florence, SC
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Artist: Walter Wallace Sallenger | Location: Florence, SC
Florence, SC
I'm a native of nearby Florence, SC and have been exhibiting my fine art photography for over thirty years. I love the large trees found on South Carolina's coastal plain, and have been trying to capture some of their magic in photography since 1980.
I began developing my own B & W film in high school, and realized what a challenge it was to convey what I saw onto the final print. I began using infrared B & W film to give a more dramatic look to the landscape and sky, and currently use a digital camera that has been converted to infrared.
Digital photography has allowed me to stitch together multiple images into panoramas similar to the wide format cameras used by landscape photographers in the 19th century, and the grainy, graphic effect of infrared reminds me of the turn-of-the-century photographers championed by Alfred Stieglitz whom I admire.
Over the years, my photographs have focused in on what I love, moving from a sample of snapshots to a series of work that is all of one vision, focusing on the landscape that I love.