Today we’d like to introduce you to Neal Rantoul.
Hi Neal, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers.
I am an artist/photographer from Boston who has made frequent trips to Utah to make pictures.
Utah is the best for a landscape photographer. In the earlier years of the 1990s, I was working in black and white with an 8 x 10-inch view camera, now I work in color digitally. In 2014, I did an aerial shoot along the Colorado River near Moab. Ten years before that I rented a bike and rode along Bartlett’s Wash north of Moab.
In 2010, I shot in an abandoned town called Thomson Spring. I am a career teacher and headed the Photography Program at Northeastern University in Boston for 30 years. My most recent trip to Utah was in 2018. One area that I’ve photographed frequently is Factory Butte near Hankskville.
Many of these photographs are on my website at: www.nealrantoul.com. I invite you to take a look.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The 8 x 10-inch camera, I used in the 90s is not a smooth road to travel with. Heavy and cumbersome, getting it through airport security had its challenges. Though I stopped using it in 2005, those years after 9/11 I had to ship it ahead.
We all have different ways of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
Exhibition and purchase of my photographs. Acquisition in museum permanent collections.
Pricing:
- Depends on the size of the prints
- From $450 to $3500
Contact Info:
- Website: www.nealrantoul.com
- Instagram: Neal Rantoul Studio
- Facebook: Neal Rantoul Photography
