Gestural Photography by A. P. Grant

In 2007, I discovered that I could use my camera as a tool to manipulate the colors, textures, and lines of a scene by gesturing with the camera as I snapped the picture. With this method, which I call Gestural Photography, I created the body of work represented here.

Motioning with the camera feels like painting with pixels and the initial photographs are like early sketches. On the in-camera display I review a picture, and take another and another based on what emerges. I repeat this process as long as needed to tease out features that catch my eye, seeking the essence of the subject and moment.

The resulting motion effects are made in the field, not by computer. Beyond a photographic method, it is the raw discovery that thrills me most about Gestural Photography.

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Previous Exhibits

2011

  • October - December - Group show at Valley Photo Center • Tower Square • Springfield Massachusetts
  • October - Five pieces on display at Baystate Medical Center • Springfield, Massachusetss
  • August - Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library • Northampton, Massachusetts
  • May - ArtWalk Easthampton, Mt. Tom's Homemade Ice Cream

2010

  • Greater Easthampton Chamber of Commerce • Easthampton, Massachusetts
  • Greenfields Market • Greenfield, Massachusetts

2009

  • October - November • Faces and Place Gallery • Millers Falls, Massachusetts
  • May - June • Easthampton City Arts Gallery • Easthampton, Massachusetts
  • April • Mount Toby Friends Meetinghouse • Leverett, Massachusetts
  • April • Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce • Amherst, Massachusetts
  • March - June • Alfredo’s Gallery of Fine Art Photography • Suffield, Connecticut
  • March - April • Baystate Franklin Medical Center • Greenfield, Massachusetts
  • February • Meekins Library • Williamsburg, Massachusetts

2008

  • December - January 2009 • The Green Bean • Northampton, Massachusetts
  • November - December • McCuskers Market • Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
  • November • The Artisan's Cafe • Holyoke, Massachusetts
  • October • Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community • Holyoke, Massachusetts
  • September • Nashawannuck Gallery • 40 Cottage St, Easthampton, Massachusetts
  • September • Green Fields Market • Greenfield, Massachusetts

Ongoing Displays

  • Side Street Café • 442 Maple Street Florence, MA 01062 (sidestcafe.com)

Gestural Photography by A. P. Grant, © 2010