Celebrating Fifty Years in Black and White Film Photography!

Toby Ray Vandenack is an American photographer best known for his black and white images of New York and Paris.  Born in Wisconsin in the late 1950s, he became involved in photography at the age of sixteen making photographs for the school newspaper and yearbook while attending high school in Green Bay during the 1970s: “I was sixteen when I developed my first black and white photographs in the darkroom during my high school days in the 1970s—a magical experience that turned into a lifelong passion.”  Vandenack’s work has since been widely published and is included in collections throughout the world. He has received numerous awards for his photography, including master print competition from the Professional Photographers of America. “Intensity of vision” are among words used to describe Vandenack’s photographic style in a Retrospective Exhibit statement by Susan Talbot Stanaway, Art Historian and Curator of Art: “Vandenack presents fresh, evocative, and tactile views that are, as well, beautifully crafted.”

In a digital world Vandenack embraces technological advances in photography, yet remains committed to his traditional black and white film roots: “Digital imaging and tools like Photoshop are amazing, but to me, there’s something therapeutic about bringing life back to a negative by printing and developing it in the darkroom,”