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| “Sand Castles” by Dale Strouse. |
VANCOUVER – Urban landscape is the subject of a photography exhibit on display through Jan. 28 in the Multimedia Classroom building gallery at WSU Vancouver.
“Modern Relics” features striking black-and-white photography by Dale Strouse, a self-taught photographer who has been making images for more than 20 years. Strouse’s exhibit showcases his fascination with the urban landscape through images that represent humankind’s physical influence on topography.
By photographing manmade objects seemingly abandoned in the environment, the objects become relics and commentaries on the frayed and tangled fabric of American culture.
While many of Strouse’s crisp photos were taken in and around southwest Washington, he is interested in raising questions more than documenting a place in time.
“Within each image there is a story to be told, a story the viewer is free to interpret and compose. I want to make images that generate questions that have more than one answer,” said Strouse.
He has served as a board member and taught workshops at the Newspace Center for Photography, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting photographic education and appreciation in Portland, Ore. He has worked as a photography instructor at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Wash.