Kevin Bruce Parent is a self taught photographer from New Hampshire who has been shooting since 1990. Focused on traditional color landscape photography until 1999 he then began experimenting. His is a constantly evolving style – he is always to try something. Moving to Charleston in 1997 he was taken with the difference in the landscape and the stories behind abandoned boats, signage and cemetery sculpture. Utilizing pinhole cameras, zone plates and the lith printing process he creates painterly images. Parent has been greatly influenced by the writers such as Poe, Faulkner and O’Conner. The translation of the south he has read of and the south he sees is transformed to a mystical level through the pinhole and the darkroom experience. Parent received an honorable mention in the 2005 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition and showed in the Black & White Show at Carolina Galleries in March of 2004. He says, "I find it odd and a bit perplexing that anyone would entrust creative decision making to machines instead of using their deeply felt and often ignored intuition." Yet in 2010 even Parent found the versatility and ease of digital to be very sexy.  He is exploring the paths to it being a trustworthy extension of his creative eye. Visit www.kevinbruceparent.com to see more work.