All summer long, the work of local contemporary photographers David Humphreys and Aaron Hogan will be showcased at the LSU Student Union Art Gallery.
The exhibit will be open every weekday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until August 22.
Both artists work as commercial photographers in Baton Rouge.
Hogan is newer to the artistic photography scene, with this being the second art exhibit of his career.
“I did this project to push myself in an artistic direction,” Hogan said. “Everything I’ve done up until this point has been to make money. Even if this project didn’t make a single dollar, I’d be feeding my own soul.”
Humphreys, on the other hand, has been working with fine art photography for 38 years, and one of his pieces is on permanent display at the LSU Museum of Art.
“I was the one that was offered the show at the LSU Student Union Art Gallery,” Humphreys said. “I thought of Aaron because I felt that his work was very cohesive with mine. They worked well together.”
At this summer’s exhibit, Hogan will be showing a collection of works depicting both male and female dancers performing underwater — an aesthetic he described as “ethereal.”
Humphreys’ works will depict large-scale photographs of insects and animals, although you may not instantly recognize them as photographs.
“Most people look at my work and say, ‘How did you paint that?’ They don’t get it,” the artist said. “I’m very happy to transcend that, and be able to show it as art and not necessarily a photograph.”
While there isn’t any inherent link between the two artists’ work, Humphreys added that the pieces are cohesive due to a similar sense of motion.
“Aaron’s interested in movement and fluidity, and insects in general are very fluid,” he said.
Humphreys encouraged any University students pursuing a similar hobby to remain committed to their art through thick and thin, adding that there were times when he questioned his own artistic career.
“Sometimes the things you create aren’t the ones you love the most, but if you continue to work at it you’ll eventually find that piece that you’re very happy to share,” he said.
Hogan stressed the importance of getting hands-on experience before graduating, and added that his studio, Eye Wander, is eager to offer internships to any aspiring photographers in the University’s student body.
All of Humphreys’ work is available on his website fabphotos.com, and Hogan’s work can be viewed on his eyewanderphoto.com.

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