Artist: W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. MD

Title: Sand Fence: Light and Shadow

Date: 2018

Media: photographic print on canvas

Dimensions: 16" x 24"

This piece was printed and donated by ASAP Photo & Camera.

"For 35 years I've been a cardiac surgeon with a passion for photography. My love of photography spans more than 60 years when as a child my father, a country general practitioner, and I built a home darkroom - and the rest is history. During my college years, photojournalism for newspapers in Virginia served as my creative outlet. I worked briefly for the DuPont Company in Delaware, where I had the opportunity to work with some fantastic and competitive photographers. They taught me to make salon exhibition prints in both color and black/white. As I went on to attend medical school at the University of Virginia and in the years after, when I was in residency at Duke University, my opportunities to enjoy photography became limited. The renaissance occurred when my wife, Tammy, encouraged me to go on a photo trek to Tibet in 1999. My love of this amazing art reemerged. From that time forward, when I traveled the world speaking on robotic heart valve surgery, I took "photo day" side trips. I owe much credit to George deWolfe, an internationally known fine art photographer, for teaching me to print my work digitally. I hated to leave the "darkroom photography" but found more flexibility and amazing quality in digital printing."