Here is some information about the artists contributing to Robert Manz Studio.
Susan Bell
Susan lives in Thomaston Maine. When she is not wandering around the Saint George Peninsula taking pictures, she is an emergency room nurse practitioner saving lives. One senses the sensitivity, care and urgency of this profession in her images, which can be seen on Instagram at @susanbellphotography
Anne Brown
Anne Brown recently moved from Cambridge, Mass. to Rockland, Maine in pursuit of a simpler lifestyle close to nature. Anne’s New England roots run as deep as her affinity with the sea. She is happiest exploring the New England coastline from Cape Cod to Maine and sharing the joy and peace she finds there with others. More of her work can be seen on her website www.annebrownphoto.com and on Instagram at @anne.brown.photo
Andrea Bunar
Andrea Bunar is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts for whom the Cape is at the heart of many life experiences. A strong sense of beauty in the ordinary informs her work. She lives in Harwich. You can see more of her work on Instagram at @andreabunarphotography and on her website at andreabunarphotography.net
Kathleen Casey
Kathleen Casey is a teacher, gardener, poet, and fine art photographer living on the Childs River in East Falmouth. She likes to wander her back yard, Menauhant Beach, Waquoit Bay, Washburn Island and Vineyard Sound, taking photographs that convey the quiet pleasure of being there. You can follow her work on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/kath150
Rita Colantonio
Rita Colantonio is a native of Boston, Massachusetts and a former art educator in public schools. She is an award-winning Juried Master Artist member of the Cape Cod Art Center, having exhibited there, in fine art photography since 2005. She has won many awards for her Fine Art Photography and Digital Art at the Cape Cod Art Center, and various online competitions both nationally and internationally. During her years as a Cape Cod Art Center Camera Club member, she achieved a high ranking in competition and was awarded Photographer of the Year in 2016. You can contact Rita for original artist’s prints of these and all her work through Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jules4921/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rita.colantonio.art
Mark Chester
Mark Chester takes us into the world of classic black and white photojournalism as a fine art. This is the art form created by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, André Kertesz and others. Sensitive observations of people, places and pets with sympathy and appreciation. All of these images are from Mark Chester’s book Twosomes, (Un-Gyve Press, 2010).
Julia Cumes
Julia Cumes is a South African born photographer based on Cape Cod, MA. She’s passionate about storytelling and capturing real moments of human connection as well as expressive portraits. Her favorite projects are focused on women and the struggles they face around the world as well as wildlife conservation. "As a photographer I've had unique and privileged access to other lives and cultures and try to always be respectful in my approach, capturing a sense of place and moment and conveying the humanity of the people I’m photographing," To this observer she channels Dorothea Lange and Henri Cartier-Bresson. You can see more of her work at juliacumes.com or on instagram at @juliacumes.
Jean Cousins
Jean lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine where she enjoys exploring everyday life living on the coast of southern Maine. Her work celebrates the fluid changes in the ocean landscape as she roams around her own "back yard" to her favorite beaches, lighthouses, and Portland's working waterfront. Her photographs can be seen at jeancousinsphotography.com and on Instagram at @jdcousins.
Dunya McPherson
Dunya Dianne McPherson is a writer/author, choreographer/dancer, tea drinker, & Founder of Dancemeditation™. After many years in NYC concert dance, she splits her time between Cape Cod and New Mexico, sourcing her creative work from surrounding nature and from the body-being in motion. Her literary memoir, “Skin of Glass, Finding Spirit in the Flesh”, chronicles her dynamic journey in embodied mysticism. More about Dunya can be found at www.dancemeditation.org/
Robert Manz
Robert Manz is a fine art photographer working in natural light. He loves to wander the Cape Cod shoreline looking for beautiful light. After ten years of publishing his images as note cards and calendars with a sense of place he has undertaken to share that approach to sharing art with other fine art photographers. Hence the mission of Robert Manz Studio. Robert’s images can be found at his personal website www.robertmanz.net and at his studio in Pocasset, MA on Cape Cod. Also on Instagram at @rmanzpho.
Holly Ryan
Holly’s Maine stretches from Eustis in the West where she can chat with the moose and the deer to Belfast on the Coast where the sea fog cloaks everything in mystery. She lives in Unity with birds in her backyard. At the right time of year she finds lupines everywhere. More of her work can be seen on Instagram at @hollys.maine.photos.
Lori Simpson
Lori Simpson is a lifetime resident of Maine. This rootedness is clear as she engages the breathtaking beauty of each season along the Maine coastline. She specializes in sunrise and sunset photographs, communicating a sense of place and grandeur at the same time. Her imagery breathes. More of her work can be found on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/loriasimpson/
Amy Stendel
Amy Stendel lives in Rockport and wanders the midcoast for her images. From the intimate familiarity of her back yard to the raw rockery of the Maine coastline, Amy’s images engage, delight and awe. More of her work can be seen on Instagram at @karnateofmaine_ .
Dennis Weeks
Dennis is a fine art photographer; he lives in Bourne and spends his time exploring the towns and beaches of coastal New England. You can see more of Dennis’ work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisjweeks/.
Claire Zoe
Claire Zoe has lived on Cape Cod for 26 years. She is passionate about capturing the beauty, peace and freedom of the Cape through photography, and sharing those feelings with “Codders” near and far. Light and Life! She posts her work regularly on Facebook @ Claire Zoe.
and, if you are an artist, photographic or otherwise, with a sense of the wonder of a place, and you might be interested in joining us on this journey, there is some information about how we work at this link. ~Robert