Thursday, January 29 | 4 –  6 pm (drop-in) | Free
Regular exhibit hours: Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm, January 9 through March 27

Join us to celebrate our winter art exhibit, Zooming In. Zooming In includes work by Mark La Rosa and NBNC’s own Matt Delligatti. These two photographers use very different techniques, but both reveal the hidden details of the world around us. Discover up-close views of tiny insects and wildly colorful flowers, contrasted with intricately detailed leaves captured with traditional black-and-white darkroom techniques. Browse the gallery, meet the artists, and enjoy some light refreshments. A portion of artwork sales will support NBNC.

About the Artists:
Mark La Rosa is a photographer and artist based in Montpelier VT.  He studied at the International Center of Photography in New York and currently manages the photography labs at Burlington City Arts.  Mark’s current work employs traditional film and darkroom processes in observation of everyday objects.

The black and white photographs of tree leaves in this show combine time spent in the woods collecting leaves with an analog exposure and printing process using black-and-white negatives. Mark uses a darkroom technique where the leaves are placed directly onto 4×5-inch black-and -white sheet film and exposed to light to make contact negatives.  Preparing the leaves for the exposure takes place in complete darkness.  The negatives are developed by hand and the final images are printed using the analog darkroom process.  

Matt Delligatti is a photographer, musician, and educator living in Worcester, VT. His photography is focused on insects shot in the field, with a particular emphasis on bees, wasps, files, and moths. When he is not camped out in the garden searching for kleptoparasitic bees or batesian mimics, he enjoys playing country blues guitar, making cider, and playing in the snow. 

The photos in this show are all taken at Matt’s home or in his garden. Each year during the warmer months he tries to maintain a regular photography practice at his home. Matt loves macro-photography because it necessitates slow, intentional observation of small and easily overlooked subjects. Taken together over the course of the year, these observations reveal nature’s rhythms, the cycles of each species’ emergence and disappearance, which helps him feel a connection to place.