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Unshuttered celebrates the contributions of photojournalists to understanding the world around us. Produced and curated by Nancy Luse, a Frederick News Post journalist from “back in the day,” the premiere exhibition will be held at Gaslight Gallery. Says Luse, “Gaslight Gallery is within sight of the former News-Post building, which makes the location choice extra special.” A multi-talented person, Ms. Luse is a journalist, a playwright, an editor and a visual story-teller. Her expertise in photojournalism layout and composition contributes to her Unshuttered vision.
Luse’s presentation of archival images in magazine-style layouts, are presented in very large scale aluminum prints. Luse draws from Frederick News-Post photos from back in the days before digital cameras, cell phones and websites. Unshuttered celebrates photojournalists from the 1970s to the 90s in her unique presentation of black and white images that harken back to a pre-digital world.
Luse describes the times, “During that era of photo-journalism the challenges were many, especially when it came to breaking news. It helped to have a discerning ear that could pick out the calls for fire trucks on the police scanner and ignore the public works department chatter. Sometimes you learned what was happening by getting an alert on your pager and then hunting down a phone to get the details. Once on the scene you had to be mindful to build in time to rush back to the photo lab, process the film and peer through a magnifying loop to edit what you had shot. Then it was handed over to a scowling editor impatiently staring at his watch and yelling about the respect for deadlines.”
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