Gary Engle is an international, award-winning artist living in Cleveland, Ohio who has been photographing since the 1980s. In the early 1990s, he served as a Founding Board Member of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Friends of Photography where he met Ray Metzger, a nationally recognized landscape photographer who became his inspiration. He began exhibiting his work in 2004 and continues photographing using 4×5 and 8×10 cameras.
Engle’s portfolio consists of two distinct bodies of work. One is of landscape photography that leans toward the abstract, yet is clearly grounded in nature. The other is made up of emulsion studies created as darkroom photographs made without the use of a camera; an experimental darkroom process discovered accidentally. Emulsion on a totally black negative is softened, manipulated and then printed in the traditional darkroom process. He was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for this in 2007.
Engle produces photographs in the traditional darkroom process, hand printing each to archival standards using fiber paper and finishing prints with selenium toning. Photographs are available in signed and numbered editions in silver gelatin prints up to 18″x18″, and digital prints to archival standards up to 40″x40″.