Tim Holte
American
Born 1950 Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lives and works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Exhibitions

• Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design – Student Gallery – Photography Department
• John Michael Kohler Art Center – Post Card Show – Finalist
• UWM Union Art Gallery – Group Show
• H2O Gallery – Dick Bacon Group Show
• John Michael Kohler Art Center – Seven County Group Show
• H2O Gallery – Lingua Franca 3 – Street Photography
• Concordia University (Wisconsin) Solo Exhibit

I am not sure why I take photographs. I know that it allows me to express feelings that seldom surface. I appreciate light, shadows mean something. Every photograph is a frame of reference, a reminder of a moment past. Like the smell of burning leaves in the fall. Wistful and nostalgic. I remember the first camera I bought when I was in the Marines in 1969. It was a Petri 35mm rangefinder purchased at a pawn shop on Okinawa. I still have almost every photograph that I took with it.

Sometimes I think it would be easier not taking photographs. Maybe time would become elastic and go more slowly. Maybe I would not feel the emptiness and sadness when I see the photograph of my Grandfather picking an apple from a tree in our yard. Maybe the hours and minutes, like the ash blowing through the burning canyon, wouldn’t disappear so quickly.