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Technology has always had a way of changing art. Meet artist Michael Layefsky, a Berkeley photographer who has found a way to combine new tech digital cameras and radio controls with the older technologies of kites and large helium balloons to create sky-high photographs that formerly only birds could take.
For the past fifteen years, Layefsky has been pursuing the art of Kite Aerial Photography (also called KAP). An epidemiologist by trade, he was always a fan of kites and photography. It was when he discovered the KAP techniques of local UC Berkeley architecture professor Cris Benton that Layefsky realized he could combine them. Drawn to the familiar and yet exotic images he could make this way, he studied photography at Berkeley City College to advance his craft.
Now, with dozens of images licensed by Getty Images, Michael Layefsky has found his passion for aerial photography more popular than ever, allowing him to devote more of his time to photography as an art and a business as well. Most of his photos have been taken in the Bay Area but he says, “I have also had the good fortune to have flown my kite and camera in other parts of the U.S., and in the skies above several Asian and European countries.”
Photolab invites you to a reception for photographer Michael Layefsky exhibiting color photographs in the Picturish Gallery on Saturday. December 1st from 2 to 5 pm in an exhibit called Above and Beyond. The Picturish Gallery is open to the public, free of charge and accessible. Many of the framed photographs will be available for sale during the event. More information about this show can be found here: http://www.photolaboratory.com/gallery-page-archive/michael-layefsky.htm
Inbeded inside Photolab, the Picturish Gallery is a not for profit gallery space made available to selected photographers to show-case and sell their work. Since 1991 the gallery has exhibited over 140 photographers in solo and group shows. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9 to 6 and Saturdays 10 to 4pm.