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ATLANTA

JIMMY CARTER PRESIDENTIAL

LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Until 17 January

The People’s China:

Village Life by Zeng Yi

jimmycarterlibrary.gov

DETROIT

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS

Until 18 January

30 Americans

dia.org

HOUSTON

CATHERINE COUTURIER GALLERY

16 January to 16 February

Michael Kenna

catherinecouturier.com

LOS ANGELES

GETTY CENTER

Until 21 February

The Younger Generation:

Contemporary Japanese Photography

getty.edu

NEW ORLEANS

OGDEN MUSEUM OF

SOUTHERN ART

Until 17 January

Bill Yates: Sweetheart Roller

Skating Rink

ogdenmuseum.org

PORTLAND

BLUE SKY GALLERY

Until 31 January

Jim Lommasson:

Exit Wounds and What We Carried

blueskygallery.org

SAN DIEGO

MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS

Until 31 January

The Time Between:

The Sequences of Minor White

mopa.org

WASHINGTON DC

SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN

ART MUSEUM

Until 20 March

Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty

americanart.si.edu

All images © CJ Pressma

we all have to feed our passion.’

During 2010, he revisited

his archives and came across

his Night Lights images from

the 1970s while working on

a catalogue for a 40-year

retrospective exhibition. As he

viewed the images, he realised

it was the work he was most

passionate about throughout his

career. He became inspired to

make new images for the series,

but had to delay until 2012.

During a trip to Santa Fe in

2012, Pressma hired a driver to

transport him around Northern

New Mexico and was thrilled

when they happened upon an

abandoned cattle ranch at dusk.

The lighting and conditions

proved ideal to reproduce the

style used for his Night Lights

series, so the inspiration came

flooding back in.

Pressma became driven to

complete the series, but needed

a new and consistent means to

create the conditions for the

effect. ‘The solution, I reasoned,

was to find a software process

that would emulate the visual

effect of the “strobe at dusk”

look,’ he says. ‘This I did by

using a combination of three

Photoshop plugins: Perfect Photo

Effects Suite, Mystical Suite

Gen 1 and HDR Efex Pro 2.’

Now at 71 years young,

Pressma remains as inspired to

create images as he was when he

first picked up a camera in 1962.

cjpressma.com

Ghost Town

Lone Cow Near Pecos Ruins

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