EILEEN CARLOCK

Digital Photography

Website: Eileen-Energy.com E-mail: dcarlock@shentel.net

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Eileen Carlock is a local artist originally from Rockville, Maryland. She studied advertising, graphic design, computer science and photography at the University of Maryland. She worked for many national corporations during her 10-year career as a computer graphic artist, however, after she’d moved to Luray, Virginia in 1998, she returned to photography. This enabled her to stay home with her children while reinventing her career. She credits her early interest in photography to her mother who instilled a passion for recording. Eileen is most well-known for her Waterfalls of The Shenandoah National Park collection which gained regional attention after appearing in The Washington Post’s Sunday source section last year.

Digital photography is a way to combine her computer graphics background with her photographic skills: She often overlays digitally transparent images in her art. Many of Carlock’s photographs are rich in light and vibrant color, however, her recent photography project, called The American Civil War, is primarily black & white and some sepia tones. Her interest in our country’s history was inspired by her father who passed away last year. She honored his memory in one of her photos by digitally including him as a Union General. She attended her first battle reenactment as a photographer, but quickly became a participant in reenactments throughout the valley. She dressed in period clothing often hiding camera equipment in the hoops of her skirt. This allowed her to get closer to her subject matter and experience the energy in battle.

Carlock currently has work on display at The National Warehouse Center for the Arts, The BB&T Center for the Performing Arts and The Main Street Bakery in Luray, Virginia.