Photographer Todd Bertolaet’s Red Hills to Gulf Shores: Autographics will be on exhibit at Barnard Observatory’s Gammill Gallery through August 31, 2003.  There will be a reception for the artist on Sunday, July 20, at 1:00 p.m.
     Bertolaet is professor of photography and coordinator of the photography program at Florida A&M University, where he has taught since 1986. He is the author of Crescent Rivers: Waterways of Florida’s Big Bend (University Press of Florida, 1998). His photographs have been published in numerous magazines and exhibited throughout the United States in more than 100 juried, solo, and invitational exhibitions. 
     His most recent project, Red Hills to Gulf Shores: Autographics, incorporates hand-written drawings and text with photographic imagery to create narratives of historical, environmental, and personal significance. Many of his pieces are photographic collages that juxtapose the South’s once-natural landscape with images of how human activity has altered that landscape. Bertolaet’s drawings and texts, hand-written in white ink on the photographs’ black margins, are variously wry, poignant, and tongue-in-cheek disingenuous. The result is a body of work that is unfailingly beautiful and often funny and sad at the same time.

Lynn & Stewart Gammill Gallery
Exhibition Schedule

The Gammill Gallery, located in Barnard Observatory, is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., except for University holidays.
Telephone:662-915-5993