Photograph Title:  “Buzz About”

 Richard Schwartzman has been photographing the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became editor of the Chadds Ford Post.  In 2008, one of his photographs earned him a second place award for news photography from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.  When the newspaper ownership closed the Chadds Ford Post, January 2009, Rich and Chadds Ford businesswoman Emily Myers launched ChaddsFordLive.com , an online news service designed to fill the void left when the Post closed.

 Rich is well known for capturing the scenery and wildlife along the Brandywine Creek, Lums Pond, DE and coastal images from along the New Jersey shore.  A native Philadelphian  who’s also lived in South Carolina, New York and Delaware,  Schwartzman began taking pictures in his youth, but didn’t get seriously interested in learning photography until he was in the U. S. Air Force serving on Okinawa and in Thailand.  After his time in the military, he returned home and went back to school earning a degree in communications from Temple University.  An advance journalism class in photography taught him the fundamentals of composition.

“Training aside, I don’t always know why I’m attracted to a given scene at first,” he said. “Sometimes I don’t know why until I see the final image on screen.” Richard Schwartzman

This is Richard Schwartzman’s second one-man exhibit.  His photographs are seen locally but are also in several private collections along the East coast.