Baldwin Gallery
Aug 17 – October 27, 2024
Free Opening Reception
Fri, August 16, 3-5 pm

Lorraine A. DarConte is a photographer who spent much of the pandemic lockdown in Santa Barbara, CA, stalking the local fauna with her camera; taking full advantage of the mild weather and the county’s expansive spaces, spectacular shoreline, serene bird sanctuaries and muddy marshes. In these natural spaces she encountered peace, solitude, a smattering of masked humans, and a whole lot of funky-looking, sometimes common and occasionally exotic birds—snowy egrets, gulls, sandpipers, pelicans, black-necked stilts and more. Spending over a year in relative isolation, photographing and manipulating hundreds of photographs, DarConte re-imagined images, to amuse, inform, and help raise awareness of the natural world and promote conservation.