I was looking on the Ordover Gallery website to see what the upcoming exhibit would be in Solana Beach and I came across a photographer that I really liked and became more and more intrigued by as I looked at his work. Beginning April 16th there will be an exhibit called The World of Ira Block, who is a photographer for the National Geographic magazine. I had the opportunity to go to the Ordover gallery on Saturday night when Ira was going to be there. I didn’t have the chance to talk with him because there were many people there and he seemed to be very social and busy. The gallery wasn’t too big but it did have two rooms with one of them mostly displaying Ira’s work. He had a variety of images such as the
Lena River, Russia
The Mississippi River
New York City
Monument Valley, Utah
I really enjoy landscape photos, but in particular I like them from a bird’s eye view. I also am envious of the various, vast locations all over the world. Ira also uses a majority of different color spectrums. Some of his photos utilize lots of colors like this one:
Beijing, China
Then he has other photos were he only captures monochromatic images or dichromatic such as this one:
When I was a the gallery I kind of felt out of place because I was just dressed in shorts, a t-shirt, and a hat while everyone else was somewhat dressed up. I walked into the smaller room on the left, which had other artists than Ira Block’s work, and this woman just kept giving me this dirty kind of snarling look. I really wanted to say something to her. It was a pretty casual kind of lounge around atmosphere. The owner of the gallery, Abe Ordover, was there walking around and talking with everyone, as well as Ira.
