Biography

Ryan Rudolph is a twenty year resident of Atlanta, Georgia, and was raised in a family of avid hobby photographers. After studying anthropology and archaeology at Georgia State University, he worked as a musician and service industry professional before transitioning into education and design. While he developed his first silver gelatin print at 12, it wasn’t until his early 30s that he returned to working with film photography. A chance encounter with a coworker reintroduced him to darkroom printing, and he has been working in the darkroom at Spruill Center for the Arts under the guidance of Ann Clancy for the past couple years.

Artist Statement

I make pictures to capture quiet corners of the natural world. I prefer to deal in subject matter that gives no indication as to its place in time; landscapes that existed thousands of years ago, and will continue to exist thousands of years into the future. I’ve lived my entire life in the Southeastern United States and my grandfather was a wildlife biologist in the same part of the country. I spent much of my childhood seeing places untouched by humans.

The sense of time is consistent with my preferred medium. Working with large or medium format photography and darkroom printing means that the final product can take weeks or months. There’s no rush to capture a moment or a deadline. These images can’t be out of date or behind schedule because they exist indefinitely, and will continue to exist after we are gone.