2024 February exhibition Light and Film | silver gelatin prints by Tim Schroll

Award winning photographer, Tim Schroll, whose work appears in collections and galleries around the world has been a photographer for 45 years. He carries his cameras with him everywhere. He has learned to really look as he travels through life, taking time to stop and take the shot when something catches his attention. He photographs in film on large format black and white, a medium that best conveys his personal interpretation of the world. Each print is then hand processed in his own darkroom. He enjoys revealing the image possibilities in the dark room as much as time spent “chasing the light” behind the lens. Jerry Hovanec of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery states, “Tim’s photographs are vibrant, austere, and compelling. Tim’s economy of design and composition has changed how I see what I see. He has distilled complexity into essential simplicity…..A visual Haiku in black and white. My mind’s eye is forever changed.” Tim sums up his impulse, “I look and when I feel something, I shoot… Everything in nature from the biggest sky to the smallest leaf abound with beauty, nature is the artist; I only try to capture the light on film.”

From moody landscapes to still life capturing the beauty of a leaf curled just so, the intensity of his gaze from behind the lens is further revealed through his decision to utilize time honored wet processing techniques. According to the George Eastman Museum, the silver gelatin process which produces a negative that is then used to print from, was introduced at the end of the nineteenth century and dominated black-and-white photography in the twentieth century. This photo printing process develops a smooth print surface seen in all the black and white prints, color photography and motion pictures produced in the 20th century.