Friday, October 5, 2001
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Friday, October 5, 2001 |
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Senoia gallery stages photo opening
Highfire Gallery, Original Art and Custom Framing, 35 minutes south of Atlanta in Senoia, will have a public reception from 2-5 p.m. Oct. 14 at 24 Main St., Senoia to introduce new black and white images by photographer Anne Ledbetter of Smyrna, Ga. A stray dog adoption drive, including an informative lecture, will begin at 1:30. The exhibit is entitled "Gertrude: From Poverty to Prosperity; A Stray Dog Finds A Home" and will continue through Nov. 12. Gertrude the dog came to the home of photographer Anne Ledbetter, a bedraggled and disheveled stray. As Ledbetter watched Gertrude transform into a house dog, she wondered how Gertrude perceived life with humans. This collection of witty images, which is presented in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, is Ledbetter's journey to capture, on film, life from an entirely new perspective. "Highfire Gallery is excited to be the first to unleash these new creations from Anne's growing body of outstanding work, which are a new turn from what we saw from her two-year Asian excursion," said Amy Owens, owner of Highfire Gallery. "These have a twist of humor to them which adds yet another dimension to her already impressive scope of vision. "Anne has a knack for seeing ordinary objects just a little bit differently than most of us, so it will be a treat to see them anew from an even more intriguing perspective," Owens added. Ledbetter, a native of Georgia, grew up in Smyrna. She graduated from Flagler College in Florida and American College in London, majoring in Business and Art. She worked as a graphic designer until 1998, when her love for the photographic medium took over and sent her abroad to hone her skills. Ledbetter now specializes in people, predominantly wedding and portrait photography. Her photographs have taken top honors regionally as well as internationally, with WPPI, and appear in several magazines including Sports Illustrated.
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