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<span class="text"><font color="#eeeeee" class="text"> <p><font size="3"><font size="4"><em> </em></font></font></p> <h3><font size="3"><font size="4"><em><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><em><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">J</font><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">oel Sansho Benton</font></em></font></em></font></font></h3> <h3><font size="3"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;">Artist's Statement and Résumé</span></span></font></h3> <p><font size="3"><font size="4"><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3">I have always had a love of the natural world and after receiving my first camera as a gift at age fourteen, I gravitated toward a photographic style that reflected this strong affinity to nature. I feel the power of my photography is its capacity to show people what they might otherwise overlook, bringing to life things often considered by many to be mundane. I normally do not search out subjects to photograph, and I very often have the distinct feeling that my subjects find me. I am fascinated by natural light. Not only in the many ways it serves us by illumination, but just the beauty of light itself. It very often becomes the subject of my photographs. <br /> <br /> I have been a devoted Zen Buddhist practitioner for ten years having lived in a Zen Buddhist monastery for two of those years. This spiritual path has had a powerful and profound influence on my photography. <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Education</span><br /> B.S. Botany 1998, University of Massachusetts-Amherst<br /> </font></font></font></font></font></font></p> <p><font size="3"><font size="4"><font size="4" style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3">Solo Exhibitions</font></font></font></font><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3"><br /> Shandaken Historical Museum. July, 2008 Shandaken, NY</font></font></font></font></font></font></p> <p><font size="3"><font size="4"><em><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3"><br /> </font></font></font></font></em><font size="4" style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3">Group Exhibitions</font></font></font></font><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3"><br /> August 2006 The Arts Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia, NY<br /> January 2007 The Arts Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia, NY<br /> May 2007 The Arts Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia, NY<br /> February 2008 </font></font></font></font></font></font><font size="3"><font size="4"><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3">Two-Person Show </font></font></font></font></font></font><font size="3"><font size="4"><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3">The Arts Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia, NY<br /> October 2009 Cabane Gallery, Phoenicia, NY<br /> November 2009 Ulster Savings Bank, Phoenicia, NY<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Publications</span><br /> Mountain Record Journal, Spring 2006 <br /> Mountain Record Journal, Winter 2005 <br /> Mountain Record Journal, Spring 2004 <br /> Mountain Record Journal, Fall 2004<br /> Finding the Still Point by John Daido Loori, Shambhala Publications, 2007<br /> <br /> <font size="2"> <br /> </font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font size="3"><font size="4"><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="2"><font size="1">Photo by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Margarete de Soleil</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br /> <font size="3"><font size="4"><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="2"> <font size="1"> </font></font></font></font></font></font><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3"><br /> <img width="639" height="450" alt="" src="/users/JoelBenton4591/Image/TAU:JHB pic(1).jpg" /><br /> <br /> </font></font></font></font><em><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3"> </font> </font></font> </font></em></font></font></p></font></span><br>
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