Glenn Trudel

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Glenn Trudel

"The Stuckey Brothers."

press release: Time Lapse:  Black-and-white photos from the ‘70s to the ‘90s by Glenn Trudel

Bio: Glenn is a longtime Madison photographer. Some of his favorite clients include the Milwaukee Bucks, High Times Magazine, Wisconsin Alumni Association and Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association. This has allowed him to travel rural Wisconsin and photograph the Amish, Native American and migrant communities.

He was a nationally selected artist by Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation for the project, “America Creates for the Millennium” in 2000, where he taught several photography classes while stationed in Lincoln, Neb.

A 1995 documentary by WHA-TV, detailing the challenging lives of Glenn’s young photography students, featured him in Emmy-nominated “Picture This.” He also was awarded “Best News/Sports Photo of the Year” by Milwaukee Press Club for “The Shot” in 1979.

Glenn still enjoys teaching photography in diverse school and community settings, hoping to bring understanding and compassion into children’s lives.

Artist Statement: There are no time-lapse photos here. The title simply refers to the 19 years that have elapsed since I last published a black-and-white photo for a newspaper. It marked the end of a special time for me when I spent most of the day submerged in the moment, searching for a magical collision of events. Time felt timeless.

As a newspaper photographer from 1976-1997 (Daily Cardinal, Madison Press Connection, Isthmus), it was the deadline that forced me to make images. I’m convinced that if I hadn’t been expected to generate photos on a regular basis, few of the ones you see here would exist.

I’ve worked for decades scratching out a living shooting all kinds of stuff from magazine stories to weddings, but my favorite images came with no assignment, where I shot instinctively. It’s what I cared about. I hope you enjoy them.

I would like to thank Andy Kraushaar at the Wisconsin Historical Society, whose digital scans from my damaged old work prints made this show possible. I want to specifically thank Bob Rashid, my late, great friend and talented photographer, who hired me 35 years ago at the Madison Press Connection. And I thank Ron McCrea, my editor and biggest advocate there.

The images selected here represent a diverse cross section of young and old citizens, just like those served by the Goodman Community Center. This shared focus guided my choice for showing them here.

I hope any of you who were unknowingly captured by my camera understand that I was just curious about the human spirit and meant no harm.