Gary Swenor

“Long ago, I borrowed my dad’s 35 mm camera and shot with it through two years of high school and one semester of college. I became skilled at developing my own film and making prints with a projector and smelly chemicals under red lights. I drove my 1973 VW from San Jose to the Yosemite Valley and shot rolls of Tri-X Pan whenever I got the chance. Ansel Adams inspired me.

I continued photographing seriously throughout my 39 year career as an elementary school principal and high school English teacher.

Today, my photography reminds us that Texas is also beautiful. I am not a journalist. I do not shoot weddings or portraits or anything that advertises. My art centers. It anchors us to what is important and eternal. It opens the right brain and strengthens nonverbal intelligence.

I believe that artists are among the most essential of vocations.

Your interest in my work is valued.”

-Gary D. Swenor, M.A.