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Artist Statement for Penny
Knobel-Besa Penny Knobel-Besa enjoys creative photography in
all areas whether she is sharing her knowledge teaching the Art of
Photography or taking fine arts photographs, family portraits, weddings, or
senior class photographs she tries to bring a unique prospective to her
work. In the past she was named
"Maryland Photographer of the Year" and received a national award
for her photography. She has won many
awards local and regional, been a press photographer for theatre and had her
photos published in the national award winning magazine "Antietam
Review". If you love taking
photographs contact her to see when her next class starts or if you want
unique wedding or senior class photos. Her background is in theatre where she was an
actress, director, playwright, and founder of Maryland Theatre Arts Company
and a In order to call yourself a photographer you
need a body of work so she decided to give herself a gift of two months to
drive across the US and Canada and later another month to do the south
resulting in her driving alone for 18,000 miles camping along the way. She was interviewing and photographing
women in Laundromats hoping that you would hear the voices while you viewed
their photographs hanging at the exhibitions. Unfortunately there was too much noise for the
tapes to be used but several of the photographs have been published and
included in several exhibitions. She most recently had an exhibition at Hazen Gallery, and also in work can be found not only at Arts at Canal
Place but the LaVale Gallery in Cumberland,
Maryland, Rocky Gap Resort and Lodge, and at her own place "Sanctuary
Studios" which she shares with her sculptor/painter husband Hilmar Gottesthal. Visitors are always welcome. There is an Allegany Artists Tour every year the first two week ends
of November. Brochures are available
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