Tuxedo and Copper Hill Ponds
In the artist’s words:
Lennie Duensing: In 1956, my parents gave me a Brownie Holiday camera for my eighth birthday, and I’ve been taking pictures ever since. During the late 60s, while still in college, I set up a darkroom in my New York City apartment and worked as a portrait and dance photographer. After graduation, I was employed as the full-time photographer for a New Jersey community college, and during the 70s and early 80s, I worked as a photojournalist, primarily covering arts and entertainment stories for two New Jersey newspapers.
In the years that followed, while working as the education program manager and producer at New York City’s PBS station, directing two art museums and a national medical organization, I continued documenting my personal journey through photographs. A few years ago, after retiring, I began photographing those things in life that had always given me the most pleasure: circus, musicians, and the natural world.
Today, as a full-time photographer, my goal with each photograph is to create a work of art. My aim is to reach into the internal beauty—the essence—of each of my subjects.
I am member of the StarFruit Productions team, photographer for The Circus Arts Conservatory, and co-director of the Circus Lives Project. My photos included in publications such as The White Tops, Circus Fans of America Magazine; Sailor Circus and Cirque Des Voix promotional materials (Circus Arts Conservatory); UniverSoul Circus social media; Circus Lives—online gallery; Artemis Literary Journal, 2022 edition; Sarasota Magazine; and a book called Tattoos, Telling the Secrets of the Soul, by Allan Dayhoff, DMin. And my pictures featured in exhibitions including Liquid Arts Venue 4—online gallery; 620 Gallery (St. Petersburg, Florida); Candlelight Jazz Gallery (Trenton, New Jersey). My portraits used by more than 200 people for their Facebook profile photos.
https://www.lennieduensingphotography.com/