TwoFeetGallery.com - The Photographers

Jeff Salvage

One of the new-age photographers, Jeff Salvage scoffs at those that say digital photography is not on par with film. While the early digital cameras were mere toys, Salvage believes that today's Digital SLRs are every bit as good and in many regards better than their film counterparts.

Salvage carries his Canon EOS D1-Mark II and his trusty Canon EOS D60 with him whenever he travels. A Senior Lecturer at Drexel University, Salvage understands what the camera can do and what should be tweaked on the computer. With that said all of Salvage's images presented are only minimally enhanced from the original camera created image. No combining of images or computer trickery are used unless duly noted.

Salvage claims to have been the first or at least one of the first to take professional grade digital photographic equipment to high altitudes. In March of 2003 he climbed to just over base camp on Mount Everest. His photographs and a brief article on High Teching in the Himalayas was published in 2004 by What Digital Camera Magazine.

Recently, his race walking photographs have/are being published around the country in various magazines and newspapers as coverage of the pending Olympic race walks near.

In addition to being a contributing photographer to this site, Salvage is also the web master. In his spare time he also maintains www.racewalk.com and has authored 8 books on subjects as vast as the U.S. government, computer programming, and race walking.

You can email Jeff Salvage at
curator@twofeetgallery.com.

Stephanie Kirk

Visit Stephanie's new website!

http://www.skirkphotos.com/

Education, Photography

International Center for Photography, 1997 - 2009
Instructors include: Lina Bertucci, Yolanda del Amo, Naomi Ben-Shahar, Penelope Umbrico, Allen Frame, Susan Kleckner, Laura Larson, Keisha Scarville, Harvey Stein, Patt Blue

Maine Photographic Workshops, "The Human Form", 1999
Instructor: Connie Imboden, Piercing Illusions, 2001

University of Pennsylvania, 1997
Instructor: Lee Wexler

Education, Other

Temple University, Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance, 1994
Ohio State University, B.A. in English, 1973

National Competitions

TPS 18: International Competition, Honorable Mention, Juror: Cig Harvey, 2009
Alligator Juniper, Honorable Mention, 1999

Solo Exhibitions

2000      Colourworks Photo Space, Wilmington, DE
1999      Crosslands, Kennett Square, PA
1998      Les Trois Petites Cochons, West Chester, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 Perkins Center for the Arts, Photography 29, Moorestown, NJ, Juror: Julia Dolan,
2010 H.W. Goldsmith Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art
2009 Biggs Museum of American Art, Biggs Shot 2009, 2nd Prize, Dover, DE,
2009 Juror: Stephen Perloff
2009 Da Vinci Art Alliance, Heroines and Harlots, Juror: Kathryn McFadden, Philadelphia, PA
2009 The Darkroom Gallery, Paraphrase, Juror: John H. Lawrence, New Orleans, LA
2009 Delaware Museum of Art, Possibilities of a Pause, Wilmington, DE,
2009 Juror:Carina Evangelista
2009 Gallery 125, Current Exposures, Trenton, NJ, Juror: Michael Dalton
2009 Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Photo 612, Haddon Heights, NJ, Juror: Martin McNamarra
2009 Photographic Center Northwest, 14th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition,
2009 Photo- Op, Seattle, WA, Juror: Jen Bekman
2009 Riverfront Renaissance Centerfor the Arts, Cuisine Art, Best in Show, Millville, NJ
2009 Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton Arts Foundation First Juried Photographic Competition, 2009 Lorton, VA

2008 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Juror: Donna Ruskin, ICP
2008 Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
2008 Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition, New Hope, PA, Jurors: Kristy Krivitsky, Scott Wright, 2008 and Danielle Picard-Sheehan
2008 The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, Juror: Joel M. Smith

2007 University City Arts League, The Secret Life of Water, Philadelphia, PA

2006 Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE, Juror: Susan Isaacs, Ph.D.
2006 Newark Arts Alliance, Newark, DE, Juror: Susan Isaacs, Ph.D.

2005 Biggs Museum of American Art, Biggs Shot, Dover, DE, Jurors: Katherine Ware,
2005 Curator of Photographs, PMA, Sally S. Packard and Dinah G. Reath, Directors,
2005 Packard Reath Gallery Lewes, Delaware

2004 International Center of Photography, A Visual Life, New York, NY,
2004 Juror: Susan Kleckner
2004 Gallery International, Baltimore MD
2004 Colourworks Photo/Art Space, White, Wilmington, DE

2003 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE, Juror: George Ciscle

2002 Colourworks Photo/Art Space, The Sacred and the Mundane, Wilmington, DE
2002 Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA, Juror: Peter Hay Halpert
2002 Tyme Gallery, Havertown, PA

2001 Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ, Juror: Kristen Accola
2001 deBottis Gallery, West Chester, PA
2001 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, Juror: Michael S. Schantz, Ph.D.
2001 Coatesville Cultural Center, Coatesville, PA

2000 Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1997 Center for the Arts, Marlton, NJ, Juror: Kathleen Edwards
1997 Community Arts Center, 3rd Prize, Wallingford, PA
1997 Chester County Arts Association, West Chester, PA
1997 Pagus Gallery, Norristown, PA

Articles/Publications

Projecting Images of Universal Women, Philadelphia Inquirer, C. Quillman, 2000

Todd Johnson

Todd Johnson was born and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he resided until his mid-twenties. Todd's interest for creating art was sparked at an early age by his mother, Gladys, and her sister, his aunt Jean, who used to do paint-by-numbers paintings to his amazement. While attending school in the Atlantic City public school system, he always looked forward to art class. Todd always loved to walk on the boardwalk to see the host of charcoal/pastel portrait and charicature artists.

Todd went to Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where he majored in business and minored in studio art, which mainly consisted of drawing. It was not until after college that Todd began to dabble in painting. His early interest was in realism, and during that period he was heavily influenced by the photo-realistic paintings of Norman Rockwell.

Over the years he has come to realize that there are many mediums and styles through which art can be expressed; whether it be acrylic paint brushed on to canvas, paints sprayed on via an airbrush or aerosol spray can; Todd is always interested in finding the best way of expressing his artistic ideas. Now with the onset of digital cameras and technology, Todd has been very interested in incorporating digital with conventional fine art.

One of his favorite mediums is acrylic. Many of Todd's paintings take on a stained glass look due to his use of vibrant colors and black outlines. This stained glass look has become one of his signiture styles.

Whether conventional painting or Digi-art Todd loves expressing himself thru his art. It is his sincere wish to touch others via his art.

You can email Todd Johnson at
artbytj@yahoo.com.

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