Bill Shumaker is a retired computer network manager and attorney; he has been refining and redefining his photographic vision for over 45 years. Mostly self-taught, he has studied photography at the Maine College of Art and at Maine Media Workshops + College. Bill is a past president of the Portland Camera Club, one of the oldest camera clubs in the nation. He lives in Portland with his wife and two cats.
"Make objects that talk - and then listen to them."
David Bayles & Ted Orland, Art & Fear (1993)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Out & About Maine, Cove St. Arts, Portland ME, January 2023
22nd Photo a Go-Go, Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland ME, December 2022
Conversations with the Archive, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, April 2022
16th Maine Photography Show, Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay ME, April 2021
Stories, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, April 2020
15th Maine Photography Show, Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay ME, April 2020
Portland 2020, Cove St. Arts, Portland ME, February 2020
19th Photo a Go-Go, Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland ME, December 2019
Portal, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City TX, September 2019
Light, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, April 2019
Everyday Maine (selected works), Univ. of New England Art Gallery, Portland ME, March 2019
18th Photo a Go-Go, Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland ME, December 2018
Bridges of Friendship, Archangel Committee for Greater Portland (ME), Yarmouth ME and Archangel R.F., November 2018
Everyday Maine (entire show), Holocaust & Human Rights Center of Maine, Augusta ME, September 2018
Black & White 2018, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT, July 2018
13th Maine Photography Show, Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay ME, April 2018
iPhoneography, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, March 2018
17th Photo a Go-Go, Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland ME, December 2017
10th Maine Photography Show, Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay ME, April 2015; First Place, Visions of Maine category
9th Maine Photography Show, Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay ME, April 2014
Online Group Exhibitions:
She, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City TX, June 2022
2nd Photo a Go-Go To Go, Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland ME, November 2021
Photo a Go-Go To Go, Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland ME, November 2020
Photomontage: Constructed Reality, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT, November 2020
Dreamscapes and Visions, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT, June 2020
Yankee magazine, Sept/Oct. 2019 issue, online gallery accompanying article on Everyday Maine exhibit
Personal Narrative, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT, September 2019
38th Greater Lynn International Exhibition, Lynn MA, April 2015; GLPA Honor Award.
INFLUENCES AND INSPIRATIONS:
Nick Bantock
Susan Ruddick Bloom
John Paul Caponigro
David Higgins
David Julian
Jane Long
Ann Mitchell
Peter Shellenberger
Melanie Willhide