Artful Angle
Artful Angle is your backstage pass to meet some of my favorite photographers. Here, you'll learn about their backgrounds, see one of their images, and gain insight into the unique perspectives that shape their architectural photography. Check back often for updates as I'll regularly be showcasing new artists and diving into the inspiration behind their photos.
Meet the Photographers
Rachel Evans
Rachel Evan was born in 1966 and is originally from Birmingham, UK. Rachel has been taking photographs for 44 years. She's known for her self portraits and dramatically changing the way she looks using props and natural lighting. Photography is her passion and there is not a day that goes by without her capturing an image of some kind. You can find Rachel's work on her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.186
Photo by Rachel Evans: Moulin de L’Abbaye Brantome, France. A dark image of the hotel as it had just been flooded due to the amount of rain here in France.
Gregg Rutter
Gregg Rutter lives in Deerwood, Minnesota. A life-long photographer, he recently had an exhibition at Alliance Française Minneapolis-St. Paul with photographs of Paris. He is particularly interested in architecture, street, and landscape photography. More than anything, Gregg is a curious and imaginative artist, seeking to capture an essence of place and emotion with light and composition. He continues to explore his creative expression through photography, letterpress printing, painting, and writing. His photographs can be seen on his Instagram page @greggrutter and on his photography website https://greggrutterphotography.myportfolio.com
Sacred Heart Church, Eau Claire WI - Built in 1928 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, it’s a beautiful example of Neo-Romanesque architecture. Whenever Gregg visits a place, he is on the lookout for interesting architecture. This image of the Sacred Heart Church, high on a hill in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was such a spot. He was in Eau Claire to see Bob Dylan on his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour and scoped this church out before the show. The next morning, he got up early and found the sky and sun perfectly illuminating the building.
Mark Tegtmeier
Mark Tegtmeier is a Connecticut photographer who has been shooting a wide variety of subjects over the years, including landscapes, cityscapes, flowers, portraits and events. Since retiring from his career as a psychiatric nurse, Mark has been involved in his local camera club, with monthly competitions, and he has shown his work locally over the years in numerous juried and individual gallery shows. You can find his work on Facebook pages @ https://www.facebook.com/mark.tegtmeier.5/ or https://www.facebook.com/marktegtmeierphotography/
This photo features the strikingly unique design of theConnecticut Science Center, which houses displays that drawthe attention and interest of children and adults alike.
Zoy Tsai
Zoy Tsai claims that he is just an ordinary tourist. When Zoy visits a beautiful place, he is always exited to capture beautiful things in the moment. Zoy is a movie lover and very interested in photo color grading, which often makes an ordinary photo into a dramatic movie scene. That is 'always my best love' says Zoy. You can view Zoy's images on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/zoy.tsai# and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/zoyvegebug/
Zoy says this image was shot on his iPhone (not so high quality). It was taken when he traveled to Tokyo, Japan. When Zoy looks to the end of this street, he thought the light and the word on the sign was really pretty. He thought if someone walked through the crosswalk that would be fun. When someone went through the intersection, he just kept pressing the shutter on his iPhone. Zoy says he found this to be a very dramatic movie-like scene.
Matt Mathews
Matt Mathews has been practicing fine art photography for over twenty years. He grew up not far from Yosemite and Big Sur, and from childhood he always loved the black and white photography of Ansel Adams. He now works in both black and white and color photography. He believes that photographs are not merely duplications of reality but are instead creative interpretations of it and that the key to seeing is to learn to relax our expectations so that reality breaks through in fresh, provocative ways. His photographs have been published and exhibited in the United States and abroad. Matt lives in Memphis, Tennessee where he is a semi-retired college professor. More of his photographs may be found at https://mmathews.zenfolio.com/
When Matt photographs architecture, he is often interested in the ways that people and buildings interact in the urban world. The presence of the window washer in this photo is a fine example of this. Matt was curious about how he maneuvered the ladder and ascended it to wash the windows while the pedestrians below just kept moving around him. When Matt first noticed him, his ladder was positioned directly in front of the entrance, which cluttered the composition. So, sensing that the building and its details made an effective stage, Matt waited to see how his character would reposition himself in a more visually compelling way. Of course, he also had to wait for a pause in the busy traffic on Michigan Avenue in Chicago! It took awhile for all those pieces to fall into place for this one.
Kay Gibbons Buckwell
Kay Gibbons Buckwell, a fine-art photographer from Geelong, Australia, took up photography around the age of fifteen. Although a thirty-year career as a professional singer-songwriter ensued, in her spare time she completed courses in photography, professional writing and editing, and interior design. Her exploration of colour psychology, painting, metaphysics, and mindfulness, combined with a deep respect and love for nature, have all converged to create a unique perspective which shines through her work. Her images remind us to see beauty in the detail, find gratitude in the ordinary, and feel the rhythm of life in the everyday. Kay's work can be viewed on Instagram kay.gibbons.buckwell and website https://www.kaygibbonsbuckwell.com/
With an eye for bold graphic-type minimalistic compositions, Kay spied this simple-yet-sweet moment while on vacation in Australia’s second-oldest settlement, Hobart, Tasmania. Established in the late 1840s, the Georgian cottage resides among sixteen other cottages surrounding a village green, in the historical “Arthur Circus”, Battery Point.
David Kawchak
David Kawchak has been doing photography since he was 16 years old when his father gifted him a 35mm camera. Growing up in a steel industry town in western Pa and attending art school in Pittsburgh PA, David has always felt connected to the gritty city feel of street life. After graduating, David worked around the country as an exhibit designer in the trade show exhibit industry where he designed and supervised projects of large scaled trade show exhibits for Fortune 500 companies and work for celebrities and musicians. On his days off to relax he always did photography, which later in life transformed into a full time pursuit of doing real estate, AirBnb. and landscape and street photography. His work can be viewed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/artandphotoghraphy/ and his website at arttography.zenfoliosite.com
David says this vertical shot is from his hometown in Johnstown PA, which was a bustling steel industry town when growing up. He recently went home and documented a lot of things which, sad to say, was a far cry of what it used to be. It's just an old building that has somehow survived demolition due to structural integrity.
Kris Killman
Kris Killman been creating photography to paint watercolor paintings from for nearly 40 years. The photography spun off into watercolor paintings and that skill spun off into mural painting of which he's created over 30 large scale municipal and private murals in the Southern Illinois region. Along the way, Kris was one of the founding members, past president and current member of the Little Egypt Arts Association located in Marion, Illinois. He started teaching beginner and advanced photography and post production in Photoshop at John A Logan college in 2015. Some of his photography students have gone on to win national and international photography awards. Others are winning and placing in local and regional photography competitions. You can view Kris's website at: www.killmanart.com
This image is from a photo trek near St. Louis. This bridge spans one of the tributaries along the Mississippi river. Kris shot it in IR, infrared in 2024. He likes how the shadows and the bridge merge together to form one large structure.
One of Kris's murals in Illinois.
Paul Kraay
Paul Kraay is a photographer based in southern Illinois. Paul has been dabbling with photography since the mid '80s. After retiring from the auto industry 13 years ago, he had the time to take some college classes in photography and bring his work up to a level that he found acceptable. Paul is an avid motorcyclist and always has a camera in the saddlebags. You can view Paul's work at https://www.facebook.com/paul.kraay and his work has been on display in a variety of Illinois competitions, including Cedarhurst Museum of the Arts.
This old beach house sits on beach front property on Edisto Island amongst million + dollar homes. Paul thought it needed to be in its glory one more time. A little time using Lightroom to "turn the lights back on" gave it that welcome home feel on a stormy evening.
Jim Hendrix
Jim Hendrix is a photographer and fine art printer in Oxford, Mississippi. After a long career in numerous technical fields, in 2014 Jim took up photography as a hobby and immediately began printing in-house. This led to the purchase of his first large professional fine-art printer. To keep it busy he started a printing service mainly for local photographers and artists. Jim specializes in replicating original art works. He prints only archival quality stretched canvases and paper prints of all sizes. His photography centers mainly on local themes including Oxford, Ole Miss, William Faulkner and rural scenes. He also enjoys shooting wildlife, landscapes, cityscapes, street photography and street portraits. Jim shares his images on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jim.hendrix.7587. His website is at www.oxphoto.org and he can be reached at jim@oxphoto.org.
This is a fertilizer plant in Tippah County, Mississippi. Jim says he was attracted to the unusual, A-frame architecture and the surrounding agricultural equipment. This is a composite image edited for a moody look.