Roman Loranc

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Loranc shapes his photos from start to finish. He operates a 4×5 Linhof field camera, shoots the majority of his photographs with a 210mm Nikkor lens, using Kodak’s classic Tri-X film, and hand prints his negatives on multigrade fiber paper. The innate drama of the landscapes is reproduced through a variable split-toning (sepia and selenium) technique. All the printing, spotting, and archival mounting are done by the photographer.
Roman Loranc was born in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, in 1956. He emigrated to the United States in 1981. In 1984 he moved to California, and shortly thereafter fell in love with the Central Valley.

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Roman Loranc is a living, modern-day master of fine art black and white photography. He was born in the city of Bielsko-Biala, southwestern Poland, in 1956 during the communist era. In 1982, at 26 years of age, he immigrated to Madison, Wisconsin, and in 1984 he moved from the Midwest to Modesto, California. Much of his early, better-known photographic work was created in California’s Central Valley. He moved to Northern California near Mt. Shasta in 2006 where he currently resides.

“I think about how interconnected the world is. When I’m out on a crisp winter’s morning, shooting a stand of native oaks, I see oak galls hanging from the trees. These were once used to make the pyrogallol chemicals I use to develop my negatives. So the oak trees I am photographing played a part in the developer I use to process my negatives of those trees. It is healthy to remember that we are often linked to the natural world in ways we don’t even suspect.”

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El Capitan

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Athos Bay

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Selected Exhibitions

2018, August/September, Within Sight - The Road Home, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite Valley, CA
2018, February/March, Roman Loranc: New Releases, Photography West Gallery, Carmel, CA
2018, January/February, Poetry of the Lens, Center for the Photographic Arts, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
2017, March, Roman Loranc: Photographs from Three Decades, Photography West Gallery, Carmel, CA
2016, June/July, About Time (Group Show), Photography West Gallery, Carmel, CA
2015, September, Timeless Gallery, Photo Shanghai, China
2014, April/May, Power of the Image (group show), Temple of Heaven, organized by Beijing Fuhai Culture Company and Kodak Alaris, Beijing, China.
2014, January/March, Natural Spirit: Photographs of Roman Loranc, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA
2011, May, Susan Spiritus and Studio 391, San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Ft Mason, CA
2012, April, Selected Photographs, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009, August, Roman Loranc, Fractal Dreams, Studio 391, Gualala, CA
2009, Roman Loranc, Fractal Dreams, First Street Gallery and Frame Co., Turlock, CA
2009, Roman Loranc, Fractal Dreams, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Irvine, CA
2009, Roman Loranc, Dreaming in Daylight: Photographs 1993-2008, Soulcatcher Studio, Santa Fe, NM
2009, Remnant Beauty: Photographs by Roman Loranc, Knowlton Gallery, Lodi, California
2006, November, Remnant Beauty: Photographs by Roman Loranc, De Santos Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003/2004, December/January, Roman Loranc: Sacred Spaces, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Monterey, CA

Selected Honors And Awards

2013, Absolution: Fifty Photographs from Europe received the prestigious award of the United States Literary Award in the category of Fine Art Photography.
2010 Award, Fractal Dreams, PIASC (Printing Industries of So. California) Best of Category - Art Books
2014, Carnegie Arts Center Distinguished Artist.
2015, September, Elected one of 10 finalists for International Master of Photography, Photo Shanghai
2015, September 10, received King of Photography Award, Beijing, China

Selected Collections And Publications

2018, Roman Loranc, Traces, The Photographs of Roman Loranc, Poems by Robert Lax, Essay by Anthony Bannon, published by Roman Loranc Photography Studio
2012, Roman Loranc, Absolution, Fifty Photographs from Europe, Introduction by Julia B. Christopher, Essay by Anthony Bannon, Poem by Pablo Neruda, published by Photography West Graphics, Inc.
2009, Roman Loranc, Fractal Dreams, essay by David Stroud, published by Photography West Graphics, Inc.
2003, Roman Loranc, Two-Hearted Oak, The Photography of Roman Loranc, Introduction, Afterword, and Poems by Lillian Vallee, Foreword by Graham Chisholm, published by Heyday Books, Berkeley.

Associated Contributions And Experience

Collections / Museums and Institutions

United States

The Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (Avalanche Road, 2012)
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Oakland Museum of California, California (Night Storm over Kesterson, 1999 - Gift of the artist's daughter Lilly Vallee-Wilson)
De Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, California (Franciscan Church, 2001)
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, California
Sonoma Museum of Art, California
Nature Conservancy of California, San Francisco, California
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley
Bank of America Collection, San Francisco, California
ResMed Art Collection, San Diego, California (43 in total, including Road to Home, Private Road and Clouds)

International