Background 

 

Primarily self-taught, I 've spent thirty-five years exploring self-expression through photography.  I originally worked in a black and white darkroom environment.  With the advent of advanced digital techniques, I switched to digital methods around 1998.  That marked the beginning of an intensive period of discovery and advancement of my art that still continues today.  

 

I grew up in Kansas, finished my degree in Sociology at Wichita State University and moved to Arizona for graduate school. Later, I took a job with the Indian Health Service in Anchorage Alaska, where I met my wife Connie.  We married in Montana while building our first home and going to graduate school at Montana State University.  I completed my PhD in Biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1989.  We then moved to Idaho Falls, ID where I worked at the Idaho National Laboratory as a statistician when not following my photographic interests.  In 2007, I retired from statistics work, moved back to our Bozeman home and now pursue photography full-time. 

 

 

Awards and Published Work 

 

 

2009      B&W Magazine, Issue 72, Single Image Contest Awards Issue 

2009      Lenswork, Issue 82, May/June 

2009      World Photograhy Awards Master's Cup Competition nominee 

2008      PX3 Pri de la Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention 

2008      PX3 Pri de la Photographie Paris, 2nd Place, Public Choice Awards, nude subcategory 

2008      Opportunity Grant, Montana Arts Council 

2008      Black and White Spider Awards nominee 

2008      Artist-Wilderness-Connection artist residency (Hockaday Museum of Art, Bob Marshall Foundation, Swan Ecosystem Center and Flathead National Forest joint sponsors) 

2008      Life Images, summer issue 

2008      Lenswork, Issue 75, March/April  

2008      Lenswork Extended, Issue 75, March/April  

2007      B&W Magazine, Issue 54, October, Photographer Spotlight article 

2007      Shots Magazine, Issue 96 ( Summer)  

2007      Black and White Spider Awards nominee 

2006      B&W Magazine, Single Image Contest Awards Issue  

2006      B&W Magazine, Portfolio Contest Awards Special Issue  

2006      Best of Photography Annual, Serbin Communications 

2006      Words and Pictures Magazine, Issue No. 4 

2005      B&W Magazine, Single Image Contest Awards Issue  

2005      Best of Photography Annual, Serbin Communications 

2004      Popular Photography and Imaging, November Issue 

2004      Shutterbug Magazine, June Issue 

2004      Shutterbug Magazine, January Issue 

 

 

Major Exhibitions 

 

2009      Forest Inspirations, Flathead Valley Community College, Kalispel, MT (featured exhibitor) 

2009      Elevations, Exploring the Art and Architecture of Grain Elevators, The Center for Contemporary Arts,  Abilene, TX (solo exhibition) 

2009      Ghosts and Empties, The Daily Northside, Bozeman, MT (solo exhibition) 

2009      Elevations, Grain Elevator Photographs by Larry G. Blackwood, The Wichita Art Museum,  WIchita, KS (solo exhibition) 

2009      Ghosts and Empties, The Exit Gallery, Montana State University (solo exhibition) 

2008      Winter Grace, Jens Gallery and Design, Billings, MT (joint exhibition with Gerald Kindsfather) 

2007      The River Remembers, Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID (joint exhibition with Roy Reynolds) 

2004      Stolen Moments, Carr Gallery, Idaho Falls Arts Council, Idaho Falls, ID (solo exhibition) 

2003      Signs of the Times, Museum of Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID (solo exhibition) 

 

 

Juried Group Exhibitions 

 

 

2009      Center for Photographic Art 2009 Juried Exhibition, Carmel, CA (juror: Al Weber) 

2009      Rocky Mountain Invitational Exhibition, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY. 

2009      Montana Triennial, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT (juror: Beth Sellars, curator Suyama Space, Seattle, WA) 

2009      Magnitude Seven, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. 

2008      Sweet Pea Juried Art Show, Bozeman, MT. 

2008      Fine Print Auction, Viewpoint Photographic Art, Center Sacramento, CA 

2008      Toledo Friends of Photography National Juried Photography Exhibition, University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts, Toledo, OH (juror: Todd Hido) 

2008      Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO (juror: Andrew Darlow) 

2007      Members Exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO (juror: Steve Simmons, editor and publisher, View Camera Magazine) 

2007      Bravisimo!, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA  

2007      Natural Selection, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA (benefit in support of the Blue Earth Alliance) 

2007      Full Circle, Eagle Rock Art Museum, Idaho Falls, ID 

2006      Fine Print Auction, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA  

2006      Eagle Rock Art Guild Spring Show, Eagle Rock Art Museum, Idaho Falls, ID 

2005      Barn Again!, Eagle Rock Art Museum, Idaho Falls, ID 

2005      Member Art Show, Carr Gallery, Idaho Falls Arts Council, Idaho Falls, ID 

 

 

 

Representation and Collections 

 

Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA 

Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID 

Bank of Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID 

Bannack State Park, Dillon, MT 

Montana Photographic Arts, Red Lodge, MT 

The Link Gallery, Cheyenne, WY 

Jens Gallery and Design, Billings, WY 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 Somewhere in Monument Valley 

 

 

 

  

 Argus C3 35mm Camera 

(my first camera)