Three Osoyoos photographers are opening an exhibition of their work at The Art Gallery Osoyoos on Saturday, April 6. From left are Peter Hovestad, Greg Reely and Richard McGuire. (Greg Reely / Special to the Times)
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Three avid Osoyoos photographers will be showing their work at The Art Gallery Osoyoos in an exhibition that opens Saturday, April 6.
The show, “Trifocal Perspectives,” is a play on words. As well as referring to the different perspectives of a subject achieved by using different focal length lenses, it’s also an allusion to the more complex eyewear of three aging photographers.
Greg Reely is the young pup of the three at 55. Peter Hovestad, whose social media name is Hank Peters, is 60. Richard McGuire is 64.
Reely is the president of the Osoyoos Photography Club and Hovestad is past president. McGuire was a photographer with the Osoyoos Times from 2012 until November 2018.
All three are interested in landscapes and much of their material is local. But the approaches taken by the three are different.
Hovestad grew up in Richmond, B.C. and was inspired to take up photography by his best friend in high school. When he left a part-time job at the Richmond Public Library, he used his holiday pay to buy his first 35mm film camera.
Since coming to Osoyoos eight years ago, Hovestad mainly shoots digital, but he carries medium- and large-format film cameras with him for those times when “I think it deserves the extra effort that film involves.”
Hovestad prints on non-traditional media such as metal, acrylic and canvas.
“I think they just bring the images to life,” Hovestad said.
McGuire has been shooting photographs since age five, but he didn’t become serious until the 1970s, when he took his earnings from a summer railway job and bought a used single-lens reflex film camera. Later that year, he took formal training in photojournalism as part of his journalism program.
His other passion is travel, and this show will include some of his international photography as well as local landscapes. His photography has been widely published, including in a National Geographic book and on a U.S. postage stamp.
Reely’s work also features landscapes, but more than the other two photographers, he manipulates his work for creative effect – both doing multiple overlapping exposures in the camera and by editing on a computer afterwards.
“Some of the multiple-exposure stuff is a little more abstract and you might think that it’s a painting,” he said.
He also prints on a variety of media, including canvas, metal, acrylic and regular prints.
Reely grew up in East Vancouver and moved to Osoyoos in 2009.
He started out with photography in the high school darkroom, but his photography really blossomed with the arrival of digital.
Trifocal Perspectives runs to April 27 and the gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m., Tuesdays to Saturdays. An opening reception will be held this Saturday, April 6 from noon to 2 p.m.
The Art Gallery Osoyoos is located at 8713 Main St., just west of town hall.
