photo credit: Starrene Foster
DOUG HAYES; ART DIRECTOR
I have been a photographer since age 11 when I was given a Lieca IIIG by an uncle who won it in a poker game while stationed in Germany. Being a completely manual camera that was notoriously hard to load, my uncle gave it to me if I could learn to use it. The local small town library have few books on photography, but a patron had donated several boxes of photography magazines which were gathering dust in a storage closet. The librarian, happy to finally be rid of them, gave me permission to carry off all I wanted. Soon I had a library of my own consisting of hundreds of issues of Modern Photography, Popular Photography, U.S. Camera, Camera 35 and their annuals which published the best fine art and journalistic photography. Eventually, I learned to use the Leica as all the business of film speed, apertures, shutter speed and focusing fell into place. I eventually attended Virginia Commonwealth University to study commercial art and photography. Then came a stint in the United States Army as a photojournalist, followed by many years as a fine art and dance photographer. Starrene Foster and Doug Hayes have been working together and causing trouble since 1995.
