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Megan Monczewski is a twenty-one year old student who graduated in May 2003 with an Associate's degree in Fine Art from Keystone College. She is currently continuing her education at Keystone part-time and is looking to transfer to the University of the Arts or Bard College. Venus Uncovered was her first gallery show, and the work she showed consisted of poetic images that centered around ideas of self-portraiture within moments of daily life that are fictional and non-fictional.

Ivana Pavelka is Czech born and has been living in the United States for over twenty years. She moved to Northeast PA thirteen years ago. She is a self-taught photographer and a trained [and amazingly gifted] book binder. Ivana started taking photography seriously about seven years ago and it became her daily life. All of her personal work is black and white and she prints it in a darkroom herself. The images exhibited were part of a nude series she has been working on for the past two years. They are images of different thoughts or experiences about life, human body, and feelings.

Born and raised in Scranton, Jennie Barrese earned her Associate in Fine Art degree from Keystone College and her BFA from Syracuse University where she majored in photography. She currently works for Guy Cali Associates as a commercial photographer and computer designer. Venus Uncovered was her first professional show in Scranton. The work she will be showed was a series that has evolved over time. She tries to make her photographic work unexpected. This series in particular was about color, shape, and emotion. It is not necessarily important that the viewer know what is in the picture. It is almost irrelevant.

The Postcard:

Also, be sure to visit Michael Poster's Scranton Project website
for pictures from the Venus Uncovered Opening Reception.

Special thanks to Bob Schweitzer for moderating the discussion
with the photographers on Wednesday, May 19th. Great job!