Dorothyann Strange

Dorothyann Strange - Right On Strange Photography

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“I started by watching my mother with her Argoflex Twin-lens camera,” Dorothyann Strange says. “I still have it, sitting next to me at my computer where I can see it as I work on my photographs.”

Using photography for artistic expression, Dorothyann is drawn to the emotions felt while being in a place, observing people, or discovering something out of the ordinary. She works to replicate that emotion by putting a creative spin to the image in camera and through post-production. Anything that is intriguing, powerful, comical, dissonant, beautiful or strangely unsightly, she photographs. Portraiture, landscape, travel, creative, and street photography is all a part of her repertoire.

Three of Dorothyann’s most gratifying achievements in photography includes a commission to document the devastating results of a fire in the Klong Toey slum of Bangkok during her 3-month stay in Thailand in 2017. With Fr. Joe Maier, the co-founder and director of the Mercy Centre of Klong Toey, her photographs and his articles helped the fundraising efforts for the rebuilding of family homes and businesses. In 2016, she also designed a music CD, the CD cover, and a 12-page insert for Irish musician Brenda Castles’ album Indeedin You Needn’t Bother. In 2024, her image, Hope Springs Forever, placed 2nd in the Artists for Climate Awareness Exhibit.

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Arts Organization Type: Artist : Visual Arts , Photography

Affiliations and Awards

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Dorothyann has participated in juried art and photography shows in Ohio and won Best of Show twice. Every year, Dorothyann participates in the Bloomington Photography Club’s Annual Juried Exhibit and in a number of other juried exhibits in Bloomington. She was also a part of the October Back Roads of Brown County Tour in 2018. Dorothyann is a member of the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington, the Bloomington Photography Club (one of the largest photography clubs in Indiana), and Female Photographers of Etsy.

Art Shows and Exhibitions

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Dorothyann has sold her photography since 2008, both online, and in stores/galleries and exhibits in Ohio and Indiana. She currently has framed prints, canvas prints, and greeting cards for sale at the Pillar-Arts Alliance Center(PAAC) in the Jackson Creek Shopping Center on College Mall Road in Bloomington, Indiana. Dorothyann also has canvas prints and greeting cards at the T.C.Steele homestead and museum in Brown County, Indiana. She, and other members of the Bloomington Photography Club, has several images hanging in a year-round exhibit at the Monroe County Airport. Dorothyann is willing to print any size of the images that are not presently offered at any of the exhibits/gallery seen. Prints are also available on RightOnStrange.etsy.com.

Upcoming Events

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Dorothyann will be exhibiting with other members of the Creative Techniques, SPUDS (Street, Photojournalism, Urban, Documentary, and Sports), Film Users, and the Point and Shoot focus groups of the Bloomington Photography Club(BPC) through July at the Backspace Gallery located in the Bonne Fête store on the Square in downtown Bloomington, Indiana.
The opening reception is July 11 from 5pm to 8pm on Bloomington’s First Friday Art Gallery Walk.
Dorothyann is also exhibiting with other members of the BPC at the Monroe County airport in Bloomington through September. The exhibit is an ongoing, ever-changing showcase of images. The displays include sports, photo journalism, landscape, street, macro, portrait, creative, nature, architectural, and of course, aeronautical images. Free admission.