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Visit my NEW site and see some different photos presented differently.  It's a much slower site, due to the larger photos, but I hope you'll think it's worthwhile.  Let me know what you think.

Who Is John Gerecht?

I started taking photos at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconson in 1969.

I was a junior at the time and a friend of mine gave me some film to play with. I had a great time and he then taught me that you could develop it yourself and even make prints. It was a revelation. My parents gave me an enlarger for Christmas that year and I've going strong ever since.

I've never lost the wonder seeing a blank piece of paper turn into picture while I'm watching. It's simply astonishing when that happens. I suppose that if I ever lose that sense of wonder, I'll quit.

I've worked with color also, but never had as much fun as basic Black &White. For the last couple of years, I've had a new experience working with PhotoShop. This is something completely new and different. It gives me exactly the sense of wonder that I've gotten from Black &White over the years, A sense of wonder as the picture appears in front of me. But now, it's on a screen instead of on a piece of paper submerged in a tray of photo chemicals.

Many of my models have illusions that they are going to be models, but in reality they just end up with some really good photos. Several of my models have become successful models, but the vast majority just don't have what it takes, which is more than just beauty (another web page for the future, perhaps?).