Mitch Dobrowner

Torqueo Over Plains, Wagon Mound, NM, limited edition photograph, signed

2023

photo-eye Galley is excited to debut 9 new images form Mitch Dobrowner's STORMS series. Dobrowner has always been drawn to weather and in 2009 he actively started seeking out temp...

New 2015 Storms Release The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at tim...

For nearly a decade, Mitch Dobrowner has ventured out with professional storm chasers into the American heartland photographing the energy of a wondrous and sometimes perilous planet...

New 2015 Storms Release The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at tim...

Signed and titled in pencil on mount recto Gelatin Silver print Paper 9-1/2"x13", Matted 18x22

Paul Caponigro 1932-2024 New Mexico Sky, 1975, printed 2019 Signed, dated and titled in pencil on mount recto Gelatin Silver print 11 x 14"

Amarillo by Morning Marfa, Texas -2020 Available Sizes: Standard Edition of 12 Image Size: 37" x 69" Framed Size (with a 5" mat): 55" x 103" Large Edition of 12 Image Size: 56" x 103" Framed Size (with a 5" mat): 70" x 118" A Small Artist Proof may be available upon request. Price includes David Yarrow's custom black ash frame with white linen archival mat and UV protective acrylic. The print is also available unframed and with custom framing options. Please inquire. Archival Pigment Print. All prints are on 315gsm Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta paper and varnished after processing to give both endurance and sheen. Each is signed, dated and numbered on the front. David Yarrow's narrative on "Amarillo by Morning": "Wagons evoke childhood memories of watching John Wayne Westerns on the BBC on cold winter evenings. No mode of transport is more emblematic of the great push West and the attendant dangers. For a storyteller of life on the final frontier, props don’t get any better, but finding an authentic one and taking it to the pre-researched location in the wilderness of West Texas is a challenge and an expense. Anyhow, those issues overcome, the biggest problem with photographing a wagon on the move is that it does not suit my style of photography which would tend to be to shoot towards the oncoming wagon. This is simply because the horses’ heads will be at least 10 feet in front of the people driving the wagon. One or other would be in focus, but never both. To have the foreground subject out of focus is a tension point in any photograph and to have the human characters out of focus would seem fairly suboptimal. I wrestled with this the night before the shot and finally it dawned on me what to do. I think it works and I have always wanted to have a picture with this title. I am sure they made it to Amarillo by morning. The whole image smells of old Texas...

In expressing his narrative of “The Western Abandon” Cody concentrates his focus on abandoned farms, crumbling homes, neglected churches, aging cemeteries, forgotten cars and other o...