About the Artists
Ron Caplain
Ron Caplain began photographing in the 1970s as a landscape photographer. In the 80s he became interested in street work, which he continues to this day. Although he has not had any formal training, he has taken many workshops with renowned photographers, among them Ansel Adams, George Tice, and Joel Meyerowitz.
Caplain’s work includes subjects such as street people, parades, conversations, illusions, and juxtapositions. His favorite place to photograph is New York City, where he finds the crowds and the beat completely in synch with his work. Caplain became interested in store windows and the ambiguity of what is happening within and the reflections without. He published a collection of black and white store window reflections with Morgan and Morgan.
Caplain is a member of the Royal Photographic Society of Bath, UK, where he holds several distinctions. He is also a member of DeBlois Gallery in Middletown, RI and past member of Boston’s Copley Society and the Providence Art Club. He has exhibited in galleries in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Providence, as well as Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts. Most recently, Caplain has taken his photography to new levels in printmaking, making use of monoprints, encaustic, and image transfers.
Michael Day
Michael Day is Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University, where he served as Professor of English and Director of the First-Year Composition Program for over 20 years. In retirement, Day is working on a hyperlocal wildlife photography project that entails daily walks in the woods adjoining Northern Illinois University and culminates yearly in a local wildlife calendar to benefit the Friends of the NIU Library. He also posts his wildlife photos in local bird and photography groups on Facebook. Day and his wife go to Japan for a month every year, and he has been busy not only learning to identify Japanese birds, but branching out into photographing people, as the current exhibit illustrates.