Art: Tree in Mirror, St. Paul’s, Paris by Roger Camp
THE JORDAN BOULEVARD
Slipping between the broken paving stone,
shoes bleating a harried rhythm in rubber,
I move visibly, sallowed,
as a humbled painter,
staring blankly at the unblemished canvas
of even time:
coming through clearly, loud,
coming through in found feather ambiance,
the ego of lazy weekend wanders coming back
as united strumming on
bending jazz break corners.
The tuba honks in Metro
underpass drew a line
with pathway’s depth on
gold flake etching of what
it was in pas march to
dead hot wire, imperial
fantasia and the rest of
it.
There isn’t some idle hope
here: I’d be lying
to take it further, in shade of
wishing wells, giving trees.
About the author:
Carter Vance is a student and aspiring poet originally from Cobourg, Ontario, currently studying at Carleton University in Ottawa. His work has appeared in such publications as The Vehicle, (parenthetical) and F(r)iction, amongst others. He received an Honourable Mention from Contemporary Verse 2’s Young Buck Poetry Awards in 2015. His work also appears on his personal blog Comment is Welcome.
Art: Tree in Mirror, St. Paul’s, Paris by Roger Camp
In the artist’s words:
Roger Camp is a photographer and educator. Initially self-taught, he began photographing in earnest on a transcontinental bicycle trip he planned and executed at age 15 (1961). Accompanied by his twin brother, Roderic Ai Camp, the political scientist, they rode from Orange, California to Dayton, Ohio and the following year to Victoria, B.C., Canada. The trips are chronicled in a two-part article in The American Geographical Society’s Focus (Fall & Winter, 1990).
Biography
Roger Camp is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in English (1967) and a master’s degree in English (1969) from the University of Texas, Austin. He also holds a masters and master’s of fine arts degree (1973,1974) from the University of Iowa in photography.
He started teaching English at Eastern Illinois University (1969) followed by a dual teaching position in English/Photography at the Columbus College of Art & Design (1974). Camp taught American students at the Cite Universitaire de Paris (1990) and directed the photography program at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA (1977).
Camp served as a book reviewer for Library Journal (1981) and a contract photographer for Black Star, New York (1990).
Camp was a Danforth Fellow in Black Studies (1969), a Visual Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown (1982), held a summer seminar Fulbright to Brazil (1988) and is the recipient of the Lecia Medal of Excellence in documentary photography (1992).
Publications
Camp is the author of three books:
Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, released in 2002 (selected by American Photo, The Associated Press, NBC Today Show in their recommended photo books of the year).
500 Flowers, Dewi Lewis Media, released in 2005.
Roger Camp: Heat, Charta/DAP, released in 2008.