Art in Black & White
From the Camera of G.M.
Howerton
G. M. Howerton is a multiple award
winning photographer residing in Danville, Virginia. All of his
images are individually created by hand using traditional darkroom
methods. No digital manipulation of any kind is used.
For 25 years, Howerton pursued a career in the Corporate
world. He began this career as a contracted employee working for
NASA at the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia. As he moved
thru his career pursuits he had the opportunity to move to New York
to work at the World Trade Center, which he turned down. The last
fifteen years of his corporate work was spent at the Virginia
Housing Development Authority located in Richmond, Virginia.
There, he considered his greatest achievement was in leading a team
of Internal staff and hand picked contracted personnel in
successfully addressing the Y2K issues of the Authority. In his last
position at VHDA he held the position of Assistant Director of
Enterprise Management.
Three years prior to leaving VHDA to pursue photography full
time, Howerton formed the company, "G.M. Howerton Photography, LLC". His love of
photography and nature coupled with his love of the road, drives
Howerton to capture images of our disappearing landscape.
His work is a pursuit of technical excellence and good composition
as well as an expression of soul and personal vision.
Howerton goes the distance to capture the
images in this website and generally there is a story which goes
with each one. If you have an interest in a particular image, you
may email G. M. for the background information on the image.
All of the materials used in the construction of each image
are acid free and of archival standards. Howerton's work has been referred to as environmental
isolationism, absent of the daily presence of humanity. He prefers
to consider his approach to photography as a search for escape from
the day to day excess. In his photographs he seeks to define
solitude, peace, and drama.
We hope you enjoy viewing representations of his work on this
website. We hope you have the opportunity of seeing his work in
person.
