Larry Turner
Virginia Wolfe once said, "If one does not lie back and sum up and say to the moment, this very moment, stay you are so fair, what will be one's gain, dying? No: stay this moment. No one ever says that enough." However, photographers say that when they make a poignant photograph and the moment is captured forever. So this is Larry Turner's quest: "to stay this moment" through photographic images, whereas moments are made still and alive forever.
Widely published Malin, Oregon photographer/writer Larry Turner is one of the world's most diverse photographers.
Turner's photographs are like his life. "I'm not separate from my experience. I am a documentarian. Wherever I go, I attend to light...and light attends to me. The camera is my tool of choice toward bearing witness to my life's journey."
Turner's work has appeared in countless books, magazines, calendars, gallery shows, posters and newspapers, including Range Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic Traveler, Sunset, Travel and Leisure, The Denver Post, Gourmet, American Heritage, Browntrout Publishers, Avalanche Publishers, Barnes and Noble, Nevada Magazine and Grant Heilman Stock Photo Agency (heilmanphoto.com) outlets. He is noted for his work of the people and landscape of the American West. Visit his website at www.larryturnerphotography.com.
"As a photographer, I document...and the moment will stay, captured forever in time for posterity...a stillness brought to a moment. If truly captured, it becomes history and wisdom. "