DIRK McDONNELL has been photographing since the mid-80s when with his 35mm camera, he travelled extensively through Mexico. His "historiographic photographs have clarity, emotional depth and edge", wrote Philip Isaacson in the Maine Sunday Telegram. McDonnell has since traveled to photograph life in a number of disparate places, including Turkey, Holland, England, Italy, France, Ireland, and China. More recently he has been concentrating on photographing the Maine landscape in winter, usually working with a large format camera which enables him to manipulate the image while shooting. His darkroom work is impeccable. He is also represented by Throckmorton Gallery in New York, where he has a one-person show in 2004. He is in the permanent collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, The Georgia O'Keefe Museum in Santa Fe, NM, the Portland Museum of Art, Bravo Center, Oaxaca, Mexico, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, The Norma Marin Collection at Smith Welleley, the University of Maine, Machias, ME, and the Bruce Brown Collection at PMA. McDonnell has shown at Colby College in Waterville, the Univeristy of New England at Westbrook College, the University of Maine at Machias, at the Center for Maine Comtemporary Art in Rockport. McDonnell's work can also be seen at www.dirkmcdonnell.net