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The Milliken Art Gallery at Converse College will showcase original works by respected photo-artists Mike Corbin and Mark Olencki through Nov. 14. As with all Gallery events, the exhibit is free and open to the public. Mike Corbin has taught art and photography to junior high school students and at Converse College as an adjunct professor for many years. �For me,� he says, �the most satisfying part of the kind of photography that I do is in the journey. The places and people that I have gotten to know through the camera are unforgettable to me.� A photo-documentary by Corbin of a family peach farm has been part of a traveling exhibit that has visited Charlotte (N.C.), Washington, D.C., and Oxford, Miss. This particular documentary eventually led to his book, Family Trees (1998). As his work became recognized, Corbin became a highly sought after commissioned photographer. In 1998, he was commissioned to document people, places, and events in five counties of the Carolinas in 1998 for the Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, a project which resulted in over 200 photographs in the permanent collection of the Gibbs Cancer Treatment Center at the hospital. In 2000-01, Corbin completed a corporate collection of over 80 works documenting people in Spartanburg for the First National Bank of Spartanburg. Another project involved taking portraits and making recordings to mark the close of the Riverdale textile mill in Enoree. The portraits and interviews were included in Textile Town: The History of the Textile Industry in Spartanburg County. During the exhibit at the Milliken Gallery, Mark Olencki will showcase photographs that were taken during a cultural exchange program sponsored by the Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg and Winterthur, Switzerland in 2001. �These photographs depict all aspects of the Swiss peoples, cultures, buildings, and everyday life,� said Olencki. �They truly show how everyday people live in Switzerland.� Commercial work by Olencki has appeared in numerous books, magazines, newspapers, and specialty business publications in the Southeast. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the State of S.C., as well as private collections of many corporations and individuals. His graphic designs and photography have been featured in all 16 books of the Hub City Writers Project, and two books produced by the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce. For more information, contact the Milliken Art Gallery at (864) 596-9181 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. (Photo by Mike Corbin and Mark Olencki)
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