PANEL DISCUSSION at fotofoto gallery • Sat Nov 14th, 2pm, featuring M. Mancher, P. Mele, P.Waldroup
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📌 The upcoming artist PANEL DISCUSSION at fotofoto gallery is scheduled for Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 2:00 PM. This event serves as a deep dive into three distinct photographic exhibitions on display at the gallery through November 14th.
📌 Moderated by Clyde Berger, Past President of the Huntington Camera Club, the panel will feature artist members Mark Mancher, Paul M. Mele, and Pamela Waldroup exploring their unique visual perspectives.
"We Protest" by Mark Mancher
"Ten Times a Day, Everyday, A Stranger" by Paul Mele
"Veiled Landscapes" by Pamela Waldroup
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fotofoto gallery, 14 W. Carver Street, Huntington NY 11743 631-549-0448
https://fotofotogallery.org/exhibitions/category/fotofoto-gallery-exhibitions/
Gallery Hours: Thursday 12:30-4pm; Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am-6pm.
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📌 MODERATOR: CLYDE BERGER, Past President, Huntington Camera Club - Biography
Clyde Berger is a long time member of the Huntington Camera Club, joining in 1983 and holding many positions there including President on 7 separate terms. He is a master class photographer in the club earning many awards over decades as a very active member.
Clyde started taking photos at age 9 or 10 which amounts to 65 + years with a camera in his hands. Starting with the miracle of film and prints from his Kodak Instamatic, he moved on to a Mamiya Sekor in later years, wet darkroom work in college, and currently, digital with both Nikon and Fuji cameras.
He has taught Adult Ed photo classes, classes to Veterans via the Josephine Herrick project out of NYC, co-taught photo at the Sunrise Day Camp (a camp for kids impacted by cancer), has taught young student photographers, had a portrait studio in Greenlawn, and has run many volunteer photo projects at the camera club. One of his most significant and proud achievements is helping to start and run a high school photo contest for 30+ years. Clyde has also run the photography efforts at the Summer Arts Festival for the Huntington Arts Council, happily having 20 photographers documenting the stage shows at Heckscher Park In Huntington.
Clyde is a firm believer in getting the photo right when you depress the shutter and uses Photoshop and Lightroom minimally on his images.
His professional career included Global Director of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for large corporations. These jobs often allowed him considerable international travel which lent itself well to satisfying his photographic urges. Clyde sees photography as a unique and special art form that allows viewers to be moved emotionally while simply appreciating the beauty of the image. While his own photo interests include landscape, travel, portrait, and event photography, Clyde appreciates and enjoys photos of all types and is happy to help illuminate the work of these three fine photographers.
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📌 "We Protest"
ARTIST STATMENT by MARK MANCHER
“I don’t protest to change the country, I protest so that the country doesn’t change me.” A.J. Muste
It is startling to realize that in this Country’s 250 year history there have been no anti-government protests larger than those that occurred this past year. It has been said, sometimes derisively, that older Americans, boomers and older, are often in the vanguard. I think this is because we fear that everything positive accomplished during our lifetime, including civil rights, gender equality and preservation of representative democracy, is in peril. These photographs are an attempt to document some of these protests and the people who participate. They are also a tribute, to quote Dylan Thomas, to those who “won’t go gentle into that good night, but rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Mark Mancher is a street photographer who often processes his photos to give them a “photo-Illustrated” look. You can follow him on instagram at mman0751 or his website Mark Mancher Photography.
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📌 "Ten Times a Day, Everyday, a Stranger"
ARTIST STATEMENT by PAUL MELE
In the winter of 2018, my mother lost her battle with cancer. Watching her physically become immobile was difficult; hearing her forget who she was and who we were was heartbreaking. It was an experience I was never able to shake. The very thought of forgetting who I am, and forgetting those I love, frightens me. Death is, sadly, the nature of life, but being forced to exist without knowing your own face in the mirror, to me, is far worse. A lifetime of memories washed away by the hands of senility. No one deserves that. Especially my mom.
The figures in Ten Times a Day are representations of beings trapped in a state of cognitive decline—a prison from which there is no escape. The erosion of reality is represented through the abandoned spaces; the light signifies the blurred line between the real and the imagined. While the figures can maneuver through this deteriorating hell, they remain trapped within it. They roam until their candle burns out.
Some will mourn (Death at a Great Distance), some will cower (Off Script), some will dance within lost memories (To Attempt Openness), and some will simply resign themselves to their fate (The Mourner of Perished Days).
The figures in each photograph were AI-generated using specific sets of prompts designed to achieve both the emotions I wanted to convey and the movements I envisioned. They were built around their environments and strategically placed to become part of them—less like figures inhabiting a space and more like manifestations of the space itself.
Each environment was shot entirely on location. The figures were later added in post and then edited together as one image to make it feel as “natural” as possible.
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📌 "Veiled Landscapes"
ARTIST STATEMENT by PAMELA WALDROUP
My relationship with photography has always been rooted in a need to anchor myself to the world. From the moment I first picked up a camera, it served as more than a tool for documentation; it became a vehicle to validate my personal connection to a specific time or place and a way to amplify my physical reactions to the environment. Over years of refining how I both photograph and edit, I have learned to look past the literal geography of a place, focusing instead on how a place feels.
This lifelong exploration finds a voice in Veiled Landscapes. Capturing these ephemeral, mist-shrouded environments allows me to memorialize the tactile sensation of fog against my skin and the fleeting interplay of visual details that play hide-and-seek in the moment. I am guided deeply by the words of naturalist John Burroughs: “I go to nature to be soothed, healed and have my senses put in order.” For me, the fog acts as a natural editor, stripping away the chaos of the everyday world to restore sensory orientation.
The resulting images are visual interpretations inspired by a deliberate, constant awareness of the picture frame. By isolating quiet textures, shifting tonalities, and the delicate patterns of light and shadow, I translate my internal state into tangible form. Through this careful curation of the frame, I aim to create a space of quiet contemplation, offering viewers the same possibility of discovery and emotional stillness that I experience behind the lens.
📌 Moderated by Clyde Berger, Past President of the Huntington Camera Club, the panel will feature artist members Mark Mancher, Paul M. Mele, and Pamela Waldroup exploring their unique visual perspectives.
"We Protest" by Mark Mancher
"Ten Times a Day, Everyday, A Stranger" by Paul Mele
"Veiled Landscapes" by Pamela Waldroup
____________________
fotofoto gallery, 14 W. Carver Street, Huntington NY 11743 631-549-0448
https://fotofotogallery.org/exhibitions/category/fotofoto-gallery-exhibitions/
Gallery Hours: Thursday 12:30-4pm; Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am-6pm.
____________________
📌 MODERATOR: CLYDE BERGER, Past President, Huntington Camera Club - Biography
Clyde Berger is a long time member of the Huntington Camera Club, joining in 1983 and holding many positions there including President on 7 separate terms. He is a master class photographer in the club earning many awards over decades as a very active member.
Clyde started taking photos at age 9 or 10 which amounts to 65 + years with a camera in his hands. Starting with the miracle of film and prints from his Kodak Instamatic, he moved on to a Mamiya Sekor in later years, wet darkroom work in college, and currently, digital with both Nikon and Fuji cameras.
He has taught Adult Ed photo classes, classes to Veterans via the Josephine Herrick project out of NYC, co-taught photo at the Sunrise Day Camp (a camp for kids impacted by cancer), has taught young student photographers, had a portrait studio in Greenlawn, and has run many volunteer photo projects at the camera club. One of his most significant and proud achievements is helping to start and run a high school photo contest for 30+ years. Clyde has also run the photography efforts at the Summer Arts Festival for the Huntington Arts Council, happily having 20 photographers documenting the stage shows at Heckscher Park In Huntington.
Clyde is a firm believer in getting the photo right when you depress the shutter and uses Photoshop and Lightroom minimally on his images.
His professional career included Global Director of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for large corporations. These jobs often allowed him considerable international travel which lent itself well to satisfying his photographic urges. Clyde sees photography as a unique and special art form that allows viewers to be moved emotionally while simply appreciating the beauty of the image. While his own photo interests include landscape, travel, portrait, and event photography, Clyde appreciates and enjoys photos of all types and is happy to help illuminate the work of these three fine photographers.
____________________
📌 "We Protest"
ARTIST STATMENT by MARK MANCHER
“I don’t protest to change the country, I protest so that the country doesn’t change me.” A.J. Muste
It is startling to realize that in this Country’s 250 year history there have been no anti-government protests larger than those that occurred this past year. It has been said, sometimes derisively, that older Americans, boomers and older, are often in the vanguard. I think this is because we fear that everything positive accomplished during our lifetime, including civil rights, gender equality and preservation of representative democracy, is in peril. These photographs are an attempt to document some of these protests and the people who participate. They are also a tribute, to quote Dylan Thomas, to those who “won’t go gentle into that good night, but rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Mark Mancher is a street photographer who often processes his photos to give them a “photo-Illustrated” look. You can follow him on instagram at mman0751 or his website Mark Mancher Photography.
____________________
📌 "Ten Times a Day, Everyday, a Stranger"
ARTIST STATEMENT by PAUL MELE
In the winter of 2018, my mother lost her battle with cancer. Watching her physically become immobile was difficult; hearing her forget who she was and who we were was heartbreaking. It was an experience I was never able to shake. The very thought of forgetting who I am, and forgetting those I love, frightens me. Death is, sadly, the nature of life, but being forced to exist without knowing your own face in the mirror, to me, is far worse. A lifetime of memories washed away by the hands of senility. No one deserves that. Especially my mom.
The figures in Ten Times a Day are representations of beings trapped in a state of cognitive decline—a prison from which there is no escape. The erosion of reality is represented through the abandoned spaces; the light signifies the blurred line between the real and the imagined. While the figures can maneuver through this deteriorating hell, they remain trapped within it. They roam until their candle burns out.
Some will mourn (Death at a Great Distance), some will cower (Off Script), some will dance within lost memories (To Attempt Openness), and some will simply resign themselves to their fate (The Mourner of Perished Days).
The figures in each photograph were AI-generated using specific sets of prompts designed to achieve both the emotions I wanted to convey and the movements I envisioned. They were built around their environments and strategically placed to become part of them—less like figures inhabiting a space and more like manifestations of the space itself.
Each environment was shot entirely on location. The figures were later added in post and then edited together as one image to make it feel as “natural” as possible.
____________________
📌 "Veiled Landscapes"
ARTIST STATEMENT by PAMELA WALDROUP
My relationship with photography has always been rooted in a need to anchor myself to the world. From the moment I first picked up a camera, it served as more than a tool for documentation; it became a vehicle to validate my personal connection to a specific time or place and a way to amplify my physical reactions to the environment. Over years of refining how I both photograph and edit, I have learned to look past the literal geography of a place, focusing instead on how a place feels.
This lifelong exploration finds a voice in Veiled Landscapes. Capturing these ephemeral, mist-shrouded environments allows me to memorialize the tactile sensation of fog against my skin and the fleeting interplay of visual details that play hide-and-seek in the moment. I am guided deeply by the words of naturalist John Burroughs: “I go to nature to be soothed, healed and have my senses put in order.” For me, the fog acts as a natural editor, stripping away the chaos of the everyday world to restore sensory orientation.
The resulting images are visual interpretations inspired by a deliberate, constant awareness of the picture frame. By isolating quiet textures, shifting tonalities, and the delicate patterns of light and shadow, I translate my internal state into tangible form. Through this careful curation of the frame, I aim to create a space of quiet contemplation, offering viewers the same possibility of discovery and emotional stillness that I experience behind the lens.
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