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l i l iii - WAI'ERLLKJ CHRONICLE - Wednesday. imuuy a 2010 l , . l l . W l D O O 0 0 1 Waterloo photographer named the artist m reszdence for City of Kitchener [ BvCuAnwms PRONG Pmru. [ Chronicle Stag“ ‘ I ; cientists claim that many artists are ' . ,’ t ‘ e I right-brain thinkers â€"â€" creative. visuffl / ‘, and intuitive. Left-brain thinkers tend r / ; to be verbal. analytical and logical. ' , Stefan Rose is both. 3 . ‘ .. l It's obvious that the Waterloo photogra- ’ I ' _ A 3 is? f pher and poet recently appointed as the , , A g --_'3 [ artist in residence for the City of Kitchener , ,. ’ i i M ”at, . for 2010 uses both his creative and his tech- ‘ ‘ ‘ - v ‘ A‘ a l nical skills on a regular basis. ‘ _/ 3 a . ~ g 42; l For instance, Rose graduated from Mount ' ‘ ' '{ if 1 fi. 2, Allison University in 198? with a certificate , , F -‘ at; if c in engineering, and then went on to earn a .. c y 4 ‘t‘ t ' bachelor of science degree. He topped that g ‘ i‘Efii 7 ' , off with a BA â€" a fine arts degree with a , y' . ' ' ’ “g, double~maior in photography and sculp- ' v ' 2 he; ' ture. ‘ l l , - 5-43. ‘ . , . By dgR he works in IT. doing computer _ . l 35“: i‘o’.‘ help de port. corporate training and f _ ' i- team buiifiir-lg exercises. When he's not ;: - -~_ fl 4:7». 4, , , z . working, he‘s often trudging along the Grand “ A “ ’ 4M 3- ‘ River with a knapsack hill of camera equip ’ ' ' " ‘ t 7. ‘ “a, l merit looking for that perfect angle, that , ' i ' \ ‘ ‘ serendipitous moment oflight. â€" t. ~ Then it's back to the darkroom for hours m ‘ g of chemical processing, developing film pig,“ i '» 5:1": ' plate to fine art print. ' - M "People consider them left-brain or rightâ€" , ‘, brain things." Rose said in an interview at ' , ' ,~ his Waterloo home, “To me. they're inter- r" ' " ' ' ' tinned. it‘s not quite like being Leonardo da \ ‘ _ Vinci. but he was using the same types of . things to create imagined machines as he was for creating beautiful paintings like the ‘ Mona “so." Rose is one of only about 30 Canadian - ' photographers using very large format cam» . “5 p f eras, His. "the big beast" as he calls it, is a ‘ my??? “ -~ 1927 8x20 model, For the unitiated, the film , 4 ' plates are eight inches high and 20 inches , ’ / ,; long allowing for prints the same Sire No -- f ”a" ' detail is lost in the enlargement process, ' ‘ [he camera was first owned by West Stuâ€" Stefan Rose, who has been appointed as the artist-inâ€"res'idence for the City of Kitchener. shows off his large format camera in the darkroom of dim in Regina. prized for it‘s wide horiwn- his Waterloo home. (New ”WWW“ ”W0 ML and mm in take thm 85 county fairs. has to be incredibly selective about what decide. how am i going to frame this compoâ€" onances throughoui the image. or series of hdmllw“ all“ (“799mm gatherings. A (“W and when,to expose it. sition?" Rose said. ‘ ”113ng and you want to how repeating "WWW“ “l “Mimi“ “X3“ Wm“)g from 1h“ Once you've exhausted the annual supply "Hie challenge is to decide how much I\ themes perhaps." We Mill “is llm‘ ”it“ malls Uf RM?" darkâ€" of plates you've ordered from one of onl‘, going to be included in the imagt‘, with the Rose also carries, strapped to his hell in “NH” three manufacturers in the world. you need amount of detail that's there, How min h l\ (all times. ii point and shoot lilllll‘l’il that lH' M“ ”m" pm 1“ ” ”1 A” enormous knap- to beg. borrow and steal to find more. going to be included in the foreground" iiws for“noti~ taking " NHL Mil If'1'l1\t'\<””l”“l ”1" (”HWY With “l iritling subject matter that suits the for livery blade of grass. the ripples of the wait-r ”H“ l"'” PM!“ Hi fill” U" “mil 1” if “m“ h“ mat lowing a widt- format you have to You want to haw something that has it's (bntinued 0" page 19 l l w um - ”an" mun l mu“ eu‘toruu 2955" ,°“"""“m""w L2H! ,’ "I“ fl! ‘ ‘ _ ' J an uncut: uni"! .....,............. ..... __ “a ' V ° "PM" M“ mun-1 ‘ ill’SQOCk tile l a” no. no- 0“ . J s . ft. an. an. an. an. mm q an. “"â€"““‘ _.._"__.~ v SIMPSONS FLOORING I‘Mlhmu Wm.“ l m in: - hi 9mâ€" 4 tnâ€" l M&MEEEQI M him-Whllfi-W , _l