Al DaValle

Al DaValle’s admiration for the power of the still image, slowly building throughout a productive career in telecommunications and finance (accompanied by an avocation of building fine furniture), inevitably pushed him into photography.

Al’s imagery focuses primarily on fine art landscapes and innovative abstracts. The imagery begins with a photograph, but often evolves into complex multimedia artifacts, involving careful digital manipulation, including texturing and layering, as well as use of exotic papers, paints, metals, and coatings such as waxes, resins, glazes and varnishes. Al also employs printing techniques that include polymer photogravure engravings.

His work is represented by several galleries, and has been published most recently in Lenswork Magazine, including “Seeing in Sixes,” “Looking at Images,” and “This Magnificent Planet.” Lenswork will soon publish a monograph of his imagery from Acadia National Park.

Al will prove to be a motivational instructor, wonderfully projecting his own enthusiasm to everyone around him. His goal as an instructor is to assist other image makers in discovering their own voice and their expression of the natural world, or as he puts it, “A New, Personal Way of Seeing our World.”

See more of his work at www.davallephotography.com.