When a selfie won’t do: San Antonio photographer, painters elevate portraits into works of art
Photographer Kevin G. Saunders is acutely aware of the responsibility that goes into taking someone’s portrait.
Saunders, 65, has been involved with photography much of his life. Growing up in Amarillo, he learned a lot from his dad, whom he described as “a very gifted amateur.” His father taught Saunders how the camera worked, including how to figure out the lighting, since the camera he worked with had no light meter.“I learned from a young age how to see. And that’s really what this takes,” he said. “It’s having enough guts to capture that image at the time.
Saunders specializes in large-scale, painterly images like the one that visitors to his studio in the Blue Star Arts Complex see as soon as they cross the threshold. It’s an enormous portrait of a ballerina expertly executing a grand jeté, her face relaxed and confident. “I realized that there was a divergence that I could capitalize on, that Instagram and Facebook and digital was going to be capturing the masses and yet, there was a place to do dignified portraits of leaders,” he said.
“I’m very thankful to have made it this far, because I just know that I was put on this world to make a mark like this,” he said.Artist Giovanna DiZurita's work includes portraits, in which she embeds symbols that represent aspects of the subject's life.Giovanna DiZurita does a lot of different things — she teaches art classes, designs clothing and accessories and creates mixed-media paintings that have been displayed around the world. Portraits have always been in the mix.
“I noticed that portraits tend to be something very dear to the client’s heart, and so it became something I enjoy doing very much,” said DiZurita, 29. “Most of the time, they tend to be either portraits of the day they got married or somebody that has passed away.”
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