Skip Smith

Artist Statement

“Inconvenient Landscapes” includes landscape that is natural but is not appreciated and avoided by most and ignores the fact that climate change has effected all of the world and therefore there may be no ’natural’ landscapes left. We have a lot of natural “inconvenient” landscapes particularly where there is scant water or a seeming over abundance of it. To most people I think this means that they are neither pretty nor interesting or just too difficult to enter. Unfortunately, there are now more “inconvenient” landscapes that are the direct result of the presence of and activity by humans.

Artist Bio

Skip Smith
slugcity@whidbey.com; www.skipsmithphotography.com

EDUCATION

B.S. San Jose State Univ. 1961
M. S, Ph. D. Univ. of Idaho 1963 and 1967
Photography workshops with Stu Levy, Bruce Barnbaum, Tim Rudman, Sam Abel et. al.

I am a retired biology professor that has been photographing for over 40 years and have photos in a few magazines, exhibited in several galleries and am in private and public collections.

View from Columbia Center, Seattle, WA, 2025