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About Jay McDonald
Represented Artist
Jay McDonald a lifelong resident of Fayetteville Arkansas. He practiced as a physician specialist in ophthalmology for 35 years. He is recognized as a researcher and published scientific expert on the process of how the human eye and brain receives and creates vision. He has traveled every continent photographing a wide range of subject matter. He has studied with Master’s of Photography including Jay Maisel, Duane Michals, Matt Suess and Tim Ernst. His next planned photographic excursion is this fall to the Four Corners area in the Southwest. He currently resides in Fayetteville with his wife and 3 dogs.
Form, value, and contrast continue to be what draws me to photographic subject matter. My first memories of being drawn to photography was a box 4x6 negatives I found in the basement of our house at the age of six or seven. There was something magic about those large negatives and their bold contrasting areas that captured my curiosity. Later, I was struck by the work of Man Ray. It is perhaps ironic that my first entry and award in a juried event was in fact an abstract photogram. I rapidly abandoned film and the dark room and embraced the digital camera and digital processing software. Developing a facility with Adobe Photoshop was a game changer in my being able to complete the photographic image. I enjoy using metallic, acrylic, as well as paper media as my final substrate to achieve the final visual outcome.
About the art
Jay McDonald a lifelong resident of Fayetteville Arkansas. He practiced as a physician specialist in ophthalmology for 35 years. He is recognized as a researcher and published scientific expert on the process of how the human eye and brain receives and creates vision. He has traveled every continent photographing a wide range of subject matter. He has studied with Master’s of Photography including Jay Maisel, Duane Michals, Matt Suess and Tim Ernst. His next planned photographic excursion is this fall to the Four Corners area in the Southwest. He currently resides in Fayetteville with his wife and 3 dogs.
Form, value, and contrast continue to be what draws me to photographic subject matter. My first memories of being drawn to photography was a box 4x6 negatives I found in the basement of our house at the age of six or seven. There was something magic about those large negatives and their bold contrasting areas that captured my curiosity. Later, I was struck by the work of Man Ray. It is perhaps ironic that my first entry and award in a juried event was in fact an abstract photogram. I rapidly abandoned film and the dark room and embraced the digital camera and digital processing software. Developing a facility with Adobe Photoshop was a game changer in my being able to complete the photographic image. I enjoy using metallic, acrylic, as well as paper media as my final substrate to achieve the final visual outcome.