By Historic Santa Fe Foundation
This is a collection of works by photographers Mark Berndt, Jim Gautier, Richard A. Nicholas and Bill Todino representing four distinct visions of New Mexico. The artists capture their initial images through color, black & white and infrared photography, and present their finished works in two media – as digital archival pigment prints on paper (Mark and Bill), and photo encaustic (Jim and Richard), which allows for the layering of additional elements such as hand-coloring, pigments, resins and wax.
MARK BERNDT is a self-taught photographer, film director and digital printmaker whose work celebrates people and the circumstances of life. His 40+ years in film, photography and advertising, inform his photography. Having completed a commercial stills career as a portraitist, Mark is continuing a series of images he began in the 80’s, capturing the simple arrangement of things that one may have missed, or seen out of the corner of their eye.
Mark has taught photography and digital printing at Art Center College of Design, the Kansas City Art Institute and the Julia Dean Photo Workshops (in LA), and currently teaches in private workshops and individual consultation, both in person and online. Professional affiliations include having served on the Board of ASMP‘s (American Society of Media Professionals) Los Angeles chapter, as a board member and chapter President of ASMP KC-Midwest, and as a founding board member of KC Society for Contemporary Photography. He has been a director member of the DGA (Director’s Guild of America) since 1987.
JIM GAUTIER has been involved in photography since the early 1950s. He moved to Northern New Mexico in 1971 and now lives in Santa Fe. His work has been featured in many magazine articles and several books. He has been, and continues to be, a volunteer photographer for Cornerstones Community Partnerships, beginning in 1988, documenting the restoration of New Mexico’s historic churches. In the past several years he has been taking his photography to another level by adding hand coloring and encaustic (hot wax) that gives his images a different visual effect.
© Jim Gautier