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Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release Media Contact:
Betsy Fields, Research & Communications Manager
bfields@leesburgva.gov 703-771-2734
“Expressions of Light” Photographic Art Exhibit Opens at
Leesburg Town Hall on September 4, 2015
Works by Thomas Ramsay will be on display through November 2015.
Leesburg, VA (August 25, 2015) – The Leesburg
Commission on Public Art is pleased to
announce an exhibition of photographic art
encompassing images as broad in subject
matter as people of India, polar bears on the
Arctic Circle, canyons of the Southwest, puffins
on the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, sunrise
at the Vietnam Wall, and roses along the
Leesburg W&OD Trail.
“Expression of Light” will open with a reception
from 6:00pm to 9:00pm, at the Leesburg Town
Hall (25 W Market St) on Friday, September 4,
2015, as part of downtown Leesburg’s monthly
First Friday celebration of the arts.
Thomas (Tom) Ramsay is a co-founder and the
lead instructor for The Leesburg School of
Photography at Photoworks. He is a still
photographer, cinematographer, lecturer, and
motion picture/television director who has received more than 30 national and international
film awards.
He has photographed and directed for Time-Life’s “Wild Wild World of Animals,” Mutual of
Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom,” the U.S. National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
His films have been distributed worldwide and on ABC, BBC, CBS, and PBS television networks.
Tom continues to explore the nature of light as the medium of photography, through his
studies of the dimensions of modern digital image capture, the human visi on system, the
artistry of classical painting, and the technical demands of photographic printing. In so doing,
he is able to synthesize complex and often disparate elements of content into fresh, powerful
photographic expressions of the beauty of light. These same concepts form the basis of his
instructional method, enabling his photography students to develop their own unique artistic
visions through the understanding and integration of art and technology.
In 2013, Tom was honored as an Alumnus of Notable Achievement by his alma mater, the
University of Minnesota, for his work in photography, teaching, and image analysis
breakthroughs involving early breast cancer detection within standard mammograms.
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