Ron Javorsky

Ron Javorsky

PMB #232

375 Redondo Ave.

Long Beach, CA 90814

(562) 436-1224

ronjavorsky@hotmail.com

As Proust wrote: “Photography achieves singular images even out of something otherwise well-known, images different from those we are used to seeing, singular and authentic.”

Light is my way of showing the strange within the familiar—unusual illumination, bizarre distortion. As one who grew up in a gray industrial city, I’m especially drawn to yellows and oranges—colors that project warmth, that create contrast, that show us how every-day images can be shown with a luminescent and singular beauty.

I have been a practicing fine-arts photographer in Long Beach since 1995. My work tends to fall into one of four different categories: candid portraiture (especially of my fellow jazz musicians), night photography, floral photography and architectural photography. I work in both color and black and white. I also have a good working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop such that I can now do anything I want with a basic image, including the creation of composite images of individual and bands.

I have been shooting the architectural sights of Long Beach and Los Angeles for ten years now. I am attracted by unusual buildings. I shoot them but not as a documentarian. I look for strange details that jump out at me and beg to be photographed. I’m especially taken by reflections on the sides of glass buildings—I love the distortion in these images.

I do this to find the strange and different in the objects we all see every day. I want to

Ron Javorsky

(562)436-1224

www.ronjavorsky.com

Ron Javorsky was born and raised in Cleveland, a gray industrial city whose average of 250 cloudy days per year really teaches you to appreciate light. As a photographer in southern California, he is therefore like a kid in a candy store.

He learned photography professionally in a commercial portrait and product studio in Cleveland. After one year on the job, he moved to San Francisco where he took time out from photography to learn jazz bass. The Safe House show in Long Beach’s Lafayette Building (1998) reintroduced him to fine-art photography.

Among his specialties are night photography, floral photos, architectural shoots and catching his fellow jazz musicians in the act of doing what they do best.

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