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RGrey Gallery

"Artist BIO" Robert Chartier

I have been producing photographic images since "1963" at the tender age of SEVEN years old as this was the year I was handed my very first camera for Christmas by my parents (SANTA), a BROWNIE INSTAMATIC. I have been into photography ever since.

Over the years I have also been a Martial Arts instructor (Black Balt in Ammjutisu), MMA fight sponsor, Certified Rescue Diver, custom corvette car designer, rock band lead singer, public speaker, trainer, book author, and still practice Real Estate as a Broker, but photography is and always has been my calling and my core passion.

I have photographed hundreds of Weddings, traveled the world, and always am amazed at images that capture a moment and convey the thoughts and feelings through the visual arts. I also have a passion for the moving arts of movie making, but just have not found the time yet to venture deeper into this artistic media.

My images are created from my core passions in life, outdoor adventure hiking and backpacking top my list. I am a self trained wilderness survivalist and have focused many intense weeks and months in this area as I often go out on expedition to capture images and survival training is not really an option to know, understand, and practice. I have written a book on backpacking and survival in fact as this is such a fasinating topic for me which I have to practice and be very proficient in as a matter of life or death in the wilderness. Places I go to shoot photography are known to also have animals that place me (human kind) on the food menu.

Always my goal is to create unique images, mostly images of nature and natural elements, but my inner creative drive also works 7/24 in the man made world where I have captured perspectives that put a twist on everyday perception. I see art in virtually everything I come in contact with every day, but must keep focused on producing images that have the aesthetic attraction value for the current collectors, as well as attracting future collectors of my photographic works.

Thinking out of the box has been, and continues to be very rewarding indeed sucessful, but my much apppreciated collectors that keep me going like to see particular pieces, in particular settings, and with specific imaging themes I have created, some say perfected, and others say I have invented. Whatever the case may be, I love what I do and the passion I have for my Fine Art Gallery Works is all consuming in a most overwhelmingly positive way.

A gift I have is the ability to see virtually any image and know how it was created in terms of lighting, camera gear, lenses, and many other technical considerations which were incorporated in the looks of the final photograph or printed image. This ability allows me to reverse engineer any image and disect the contribuiing elements involved to more deeply see a creative alternative way to photograph and ever so delicately post process images as I envision.

This gives me a huge edge in ALL my creative works as I intentionally focus on creating images that draw from my observations of very attractive elemental imaging metrics, but allows me to venture into other imaging dimensions which opens new doors and avenues of imaging visual perception.

Many people over the years have asked me why I resist to go into the main stream SUPER COLOR SATURATED images which are always a direct result of PHOTOSHOP, LIGHTROOM, or APERTURE software fine tuning. The answer is simple, I do not play follow the leader as they say and although I personally know photographers that have tremendious success in selling such images, my style is to carry into the studio, then on to print, what nature presented me to show the world. I can very quickly saturate any of my images for strong color value impact quite easily in fact, but I refrain from this wirh many of my pieces to allow the image to shine under it's own power and merit, and not push the outter digital limits just to exhibit my photoshop skills. Certain images really benifit from a trip into Photoshop for some fine tuning, this I will readily admit, and I do this if I see strong reason to support the piece, but I am just not into overdoing my Fine Art Photography to a point of having it "LOOK" over processed because it could not stand on it's own two feet as a statement under it's own power as having worthy, self sustaining composition value.

There are also certain pieces I must composite together with a photographic back plate. Reason being, The perfect piece just does not automatically present itself with the perfect backdrop unless I can isolate a sky or complementry backdrop composition, which can be impossible as I look for those perfect angles in natural sculpture for example. I do however shoot ALL my own backdrops, plus I will shoot a backplate the same day, at or very near the location I discoverd the piece, and then marry them together in the studio to form an image which is all 100% natural and all 100% photography. I never use any commercially sold stock photography and never use computer generated nor 3D rendered images. All my pieces are my PURE photography work shot be me personally.

Please visit my Fine Art Photographic Galleries and check back frequently for additional pieces I am releasing each month.

Call me @ 858-568-6673 or email me at: RC@ChartierFineArt.com.

Cheers!

Robert Chartier
Professional Fine Art and Commercial Photographer

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Sherra Wong, Daniel Abrams. Norooz Persian New Year. Photo by Alfredo Flores. Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. March 16, 2013.

Salma Bahramy, Syrus Mesdaghi. Norooz Persian New Year. Photo by Alfredo Flores. Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. March 16, 2013.

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