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“If I plan too much, it doesn’t seem to work,” he said. On weekends or his vacations, he might spend hours on a street corner or in a city park taking pictures, but he is not after a preconceived image. He describes his life as being “on dual paths for some time.” Romanation is 52 years old and employed as a travel consultant for corporations who send their executives around the world on business trips. “It’s just a moment that comes out of nowhere,” he said.Ī moment later, the woman stood up straight, and all was back to normal.

In one photo, Romanation captures a woman inexplicably bent over low to the ground before a standing sculpture of a classical figure at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Sitting in the Aubergine Cafe near the apartment he has called home for the last eight years, Romanation explains his work as an “old-school approach to street photography.” “There are very simple moments on the street that might seem quite common,” he said, adding that with close attention and a little luck, the camera will reveal things that are “off kilter.” Much of Romanation’s work comes from focusing his lens on street life in New York or European cities, where he travels regularly. He uses the word with some reluctance - but it’s apt for a man who prefers to shoot with black and white film in the digital age. It’s clearly a sort of imperfect shorthand he uses to describe his methods and aesthetic sensibility. “Old school” is a phrase that surfaces several times in conversation with George Romanation, a photographer from Woodside. Paris, Buttes Chaumont, 2000 / ©2000 George Romanation Paris, Palais-Royal, 1994 / ©1994 George Romanation

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…George Romanation returns us to the days of Atget’s Paris with his two wheels-within-wheels pictures of Paris windows and reflections. As juried by Westchester-based art photographer Tanya Marcuse, the exhibit evinces a diversity of styles and sensibilities that generates a pleasing energy… The show, at the Fulton Street Gallery in Troy, features some 70 images representing 43 photographers. This year’s Regional is the most rewarding in three years, modest in its ambitions but engaging in its breadth and convincing in its honesty. Fewer and fewer of the area’s established masters make their appearance in the show, and there seems to be only a small community of journeymen whose progress can be followed from year to year. The Photography Regional, now in its 26th year, has found its identity as an annual showcase for emerging talent. HONEST REWARDS AT A DIVERSE PHOTO REGIONAL – Times Union, Albany, NY, May 2, 2004