Rory Pszenitzki, Redding, CT
Member Since March 2007
Artist Statement Photography has been the center piece of my life. As a kid, photography gave me the ability to share things that I could not communicate with words. It gave me the opportunity to look at things and see things that I would never have seen without it.
I started out as a photographer on the high school newspaper and soon learned that my camera was an open invitation to the world. With it, I had an excuse for being just about anywhere I wanted to go. And it gave me access to the front row -- someplace I couldn't have paid money to be (the Apollo 11 lift-off, the opening of Disney World, hundreds of major cities around the world, to mention but a few). Photography gave me the opportunity to meet some fascinating people -- Edwin Land, Stefan Lorant, astronauts, presidents, actors, scientists, and artists alike. I was an ASMP photographer for more than twenty years. Photography has been my life and a rewarding one it has been.