BIO   

   Dennis Church is a native Iowan, raised on a small family farm. He began photographing in 1975, documenting his rural family of origin and environs. He attended Apeiron Photography Workshops in Millerton, NY. He interned on Apeiron’s monumental photographic survey, The Long Island Project, the largest ever NEA funded survey grant along with with Olympus Camera. He has exhibited throughout the United States and his photographs have been published in online and hard copy publications in France, Czech Republic, Italy, United Kingdom and Russia. 

   His photographs appear prominently alongside images by masters like Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Helen Levitt, Berenice Abbott, and Henri Cartier Bresson in the important book, “Bystander, A History of Street Photography”, by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck. In 2024 he published his first photo-book, AMERICOLOR, with Palm Beach Atlantic University. In 2025, Georgia based Fall Line Press will publish a volume of his photographs, entitled DIRT FRESH. He lives in Delray Beach, Florida.

   "I've photographed the social landscape for decades, drawn to the colors and rich graphics of ordinary places. I experiment with both harmonious and discordant colors and forms, finding deep satisfaction in integrating them in my practice. This sparks amusement and wildly playful improvisation, always inspiring new ways to depict what I find.

   Making photographs has transformed my life, helping me move from living in my head—detached by early trauma—to more fully sensing and experiencing reality. For 50 years my camera has been a tool for recovery, allowing me to revel in the simple joy and humor of color, form, place and human gesture without over-thinking. I want to see the extraordinary in the mundane to experience beauty and humor in the unexpected. Someone, somewhere along my path said, "you have to share it (your vision) to keep it". My work expresses a deeply personal pursuit, so if my images nourish others, like they do for me, that’s an amazing and welcome bonus!"