Chapters Bookstore Welcomes Stephen Donaldson01:17PM / Monday, March 30, 2009
PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Chapters Bookstore, located at 78 North St. in Pittsfield is pleased to welcome photographer and author Stephen Donaldson to the event room on Thursday April 16, at 6PM for a slide show and discussion.
After 13 years working in the corporate sector, Steve Donaldson picked up two cameras and "threw it all away" to pursue his lifelong dream of photodocumenting a journey around the world. From October 1, 1995 until June 2, 1997 he traveled in a massive loop around all six inhabited continents of the world. The journey took him from Los Angeles across the United States, through Central and Eastern Europe, Scandanavia, Russia, China and Central Asia, India and South East Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa and South America, before returning to Los Angeles. In total, he visited 42 countries and logged in excess of 100,000 miles of backpack travel. This journey, and the images he compiled over the course of it, was the springboard to a freelance career in photography.
As part of his business, Mr. Donaldson conducts a series of slide-based lecture programs for schools, universities, and professional organizations in the Mid-West and Eastern United States. His photographs and writings have appeared in a wide variety of publications and he continues to travel to remote areas of the world to shoot stock and high quality editorial images of the world's exotic far reaches. He also conducts educational photographic tours through his travel subsidiary Go-There-Do-That Tours. In the Berkshires he photographs weddings and social events, offers black and white portraiture packages, and does a variety of commercial assignment work. His studio is located in Great Barrington, MA.
Barns of The Berkshires, Donaldson's latest release, is a 110-page book featuring 123 color photographs, and more than 15 pages of accompanying text, tracing the history of barns and barn building in the Berkshires, as well as a discussion of the development of building techniques and styles over the last 250 years. This is the first book of its kind to concentrate exclusively on barns in this iconic corner of the United States.
Enjoy light refreshments, a slide show of Donaldson's photography, and Stephen will also sign his books. |
