Rodney Lough Jr.

Rodney Lough Jr.

Rodney Lough Jr.
Born (1960-07-22) July 22, 1960
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Nationality American
Known for Landscape photography
Website rodneyloughjr.com

Rodney Lough Jr. (born 1960) is an American landscape photographer and gallery owner.

Early life

Rodney Lough Jr. was born 1960 in Jacksonville, Florida. Lough spent part of his childhood in Lake Oswego, Oregon.[1] His first camera, an Olympus OM-1,[2] was a gift from an uncle when Lough was a child. In 1988 at the age of 28, he graduated from Brigham Young University with a Master of Science in Statistics degree.[3]

Career

Lough's 2011 Popular Photography grand prize winner

After graduating from Brigham Young University in 1988, Lough worked as a statistician and mathematician.[3] Seven years later in 1995, he became a full-time photographer.[4] In 1999, Lough received the A.B. Jackson Award for photography at Virginia's Art Explosure.[5]

In 2000-2001, while living in Happy Valley, Oregon, Lough focused on landscape photography and drew his entire income from art festival circuit artwork sales.[1] In 2000, he spent six months out of the year driving to and participated in 32 shows around the United States and spent the other six months photographing landscape scenes.[1] In 2001, his efforts paid off and he was invited to participate in the Lake Oswego, Oregon art festival, close to where he grew up.[1] Lough also opened his first gallery in 2001.

In 2009, Lough opened Rodney Lough Jr. Wilderness Collections to sell award-winning photography in the Mall of America,[6] one of the largest shopping mall in the United States that is located in Bloomington, Minnesota. Later that year, in December, Lough opened his City Center Gallery in CityCenter Las Vegas,[7] a 16,797,000-square-foot (1,560,500 m2) mixed-use, urban complex on 76 acres (31 ha) located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada that opened on December 16, 2009. Along with American glass sculptor and entrepreneur Dale Chihuly and contemporary bronze sculpture figurative artist Richard MacDonald, Lough's works contribute to comprising a Gallery Row of Fine Art at CityCenter.[8][9] By May 2010, Lough photography success had gained him a fan base of young photographers.[10] One commentator noted in August 2010 that, at Lough's Wilderness Collections gallery in Sausalito, "the jump-out-at-you colors of the nature photography of Rodney Lough Jr. recalled memories of visits to Point Reyes and Yosemite National Park."[11]

In August 2011, Lough's The Lough Road company received US$650, 000 in funding from angel investment company Keiretsu Forum to open a San Francisco, California of the Rodney Lough Jr. Wilderness Collection Gallery.[12] Wilderness Collection Gallery San Francisco, located on One Jefferson Street in San Francisco, features Lough's wilderness landscape.[12] In December 2011, the readers of Popular Photography magazine named Lough the grand prize winner in that magazine's 18th annual Readers' Photo Contest.[13] The natural world photo which brought him the top award over 3,500 other previously award winning submissions, "Passing Through," was taken at Nevada's Black Rock Desert and focused on color, texture and detail that allowed viewers to see in real life what they otherwise would never see.[13] In 2012, Lough lead several outdoor photography workshops in Arizona's Antelope Slot Canyon near Page, Arizona.[14] Also in 2012, Trewin Framery and Art Gallery in Modesto, California maintained an ongoing exhibit of Lough's work.[15]

Awards

Through his photography career, Lough or his company has won:

Books

Exhibitions

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Stephanie Basalyga (June 14, 2001). "Grueling Summer Show Circuit Can Grind Away At Artists". The Oregonian. p. 8. |section= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ "RLJr.com"Background of a Master
  3. 1 2 William Sawalich, "A New Look at the Landscape", Outdoor Photographer. Accessed 2009-08-17.
  4. ↑ William Sawalich, "A New Look at the Landscape", Outdoor Photographer. Accessed 2009-09-22.
  5. ↑ "Monoprints Snag Top Art Show Award". Virginia Pilot and Ledger-Star. May 15, 1999. p. E2. Retrieved November 12, 2012. |section= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ "Destination: Mall of America". Livingston County Daily Press. February 9, 2009. Retrieved November 12, 2012. |section= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ Arnold M. Knightly (December 3, 2009). "Bigger, Bolder Luxury". Las Vegas Review-Journal. p. 1D. Retrieved November 12, 2012. |section= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ Jay Jones (December 27, 2009). "Shopping: The Big Spenders' Vegas". Los Angeles Times. p. 6. Retrieved November 12, 2012. |section= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ Candice Shih (October 21, 2010). "CityCenter rises despite hard times". Orange County Register. Retrieved November 12, 2012. |section= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ "Young photographer wins 1st place". Montgomery Advertiser. May 5, 2010. |section= ignored (help)
  11. ↑ Marta Yamamoto (August 1, 2010). "You'll Think You Flew The Globe To Sausalito". San Jose Mercury News. p. 3H. Retrieved November 12, 2012. |section= ignored (help)
  12. 1 2 Sonja Markova (August 4, 2011). "Keiretsu Forum Angel Investors Fund New San Francisco Location for Wilderness Landscape Gallery: The Lough Road, Inc. Raises $650K Convertible Note". Market Wire. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  13. 1 2 Emily Fuggetta (December 15, 2011). "Happy Valley photographer wins contest in national photography magazine". The Oregonian. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  14. ↑ "Master Landscape Photographer Rodney Lough Jr. Leads Workshops in Arizona's Antelope Slot Canyon in March 2012". Web Newswire (India). September 26, 2011. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  15. ↑ "Calendar: Events in and around Modesto". The Modesto Bee. November 9, 2012. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  16. ↑ http://www.naturesbestphotography.com/gallery_2007.php and at Smithsonian, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
  17. ↑ "2009 Best of Category". This category also had another winner.
  18. ↑ Wilderness50th Organization and at Smithsonian, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
  19. ↑ "Fly Geyser", Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Accessed 2009-08-17.
  20. ↑ at [Smithsonian, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

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