Catching Light: A Tribute to the Greater Teton Community

About Catching Light

The photographs presented are film transparencies (positive or slide film) illuminated by LEDs being powered by a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery. The frames are custom designed and built by the artist to showcase the images in their original, authentic state — you are looking at the reflected light from our Sun. By recording light in this analog manner, the photographs become more than mere imagery, they become a representation of Time. Neil Young sang “There’s more to a picture than meets the eye”, and behind these seemingly innocuous landscapes are the memories we all have; the adventures and moments of tribulation or ecstasy, the wonder, doubt, perseverance, and spirit.

About the artist

Born in 1982 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Trae Lower went on to steal his parents 35mm camera at age 14 on a trip to Las Vegas and has never looked back. Upon graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology (NY) with a BFA in Photography in 2005 he accepted a $600 signing-bonus (gas money) from Bev Halpin to be a Kitchen Steward (dishwasher) at Lost Creek Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. For the majority of the twenty years that’s followed Trae has been stationed here in the shadows of the Tetons, and now for the first time is able to present some of the fruits of his work.