About Stuart Skalka

Stuart Skalka has been based in Reno, NV for seven years. He previously lived in southern California, Las Vegas, and New York City. Stuart Skalka shoots B&W and color using medium format and 35mm film, as well as with digital cameras. His aesthetic is to create original, engaging images without doing any post-processing except for cropping and spotting. The rare exceptions are when he converts color digital images to black & white or oversaturates colors. For LightSpaceTimes’s Primary Colors exhibit in December, one of Stuart Skalka photos was awarded a Special Merit and another was awarded a Special Recognition. Three of Stuart Skalka’s photos were included in fusion art’s 6th Annual Cityscapes Online Jury Art Exhibition in July 2021. Two of Stuart Skalka’s figure studies were part of PH21’s Bodyscapes exhibition from July 1 to 24. His photo of Los Angeles was shown at the Chania International Photo Festival’s Cityscapes’s exhibition between June 28 and July 5 in Crete. Stuart Skalka’s photo of a Reno parking lot at night (converted from a color digital image) was shown at PH21’s Monochrome show from June 3 to 26. Several of his photos of Las Vegas were included in Viridian Artists’ Incongruent Realities online exhibition in February. In March Stuart Skalka won third place in Fusion Art’s 5th Annual Colors Art Exhibition for his photo of an old Ford truck with oversaturated colors. In January he won an honorable mention for his photo of a yellow ‘55 Hudson Hornet car in the New York Center for Photographic Art’s Primary Colors show. Stuart Skalka has had solo shows in Reno, NV (2015) and Las Vegas (2013). Stuart Skalka strives to expand the scope of his photography. In June 2019, he participated in a palladium printing workshop at the Weston Collective in Monterey, CA. Stuart Skalka is currently exploring panoramic photography with 35mm, 120 and 4X5 cameras.