Press Herald previews photo exhibit coming to Lord Hall Gallery
The Lord Hall Gallery at the University of Maine was mentioned in the Portland Press Herald article, “Heath Paley’s ‘weirdly interesting’ photos capture diversity of Maine downtowns.” The Portland-based fine-art photographer creates a single large-scale image — some as large as 8 feet wide and often mounted on aluminum — from a series of overlapping photos that he stitches together on a computer to create a composite digital image, according to the article. The Maine Arts Commission is showing 19 photographs from Paley’s series on Maine downtowns through July 10 as part of the Art in the Capitol program in Augusta. “Downtown: Patterns of Life in Maine’s Villages, Towns and Cities” shows small towns and big cities from Caribou to Kennebunk, Rumford to Machias. A larger selection from the series will move to Lord Hall in late July, and then to the University of Maine at Presque Isle in the winter, the article states.