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Spotlight on Professional Photographer
and FTC Professor Harold Naideau

Though the summer seems like a memory now, FTC faculty memorialized their experiences in different ways to be able to share stories with FTC students. Since FTC prides itself as a creative institution, all forms of creativity are welcomed and appreciated.

One great example was shared by FTC Assistant Professor of Art & Photography Harold Naideau. He is one of our faculty who traded the comforts of home, and spent his summer trekking across the grand and dusty American West to broaden his photographic expertise. With his cameras and gifted photographic eye, Naideau traveled over eight western states, taking hundreds of photographs far beyond the traditional sightseeing pictures that a tourist would ordinarily take. Naideau sought out images that represented the heart and soul of the west. His vision turned ordinary images of people, places, and things into insightful works of beauty. Even a dilapidated shed, alongside an empty stretch of dusty roadway, was captured in a photograph and transformed into a thing of beauty with a story all its own.

Abandoned Mine Shack

Assistant Professor Naideau says, “That’s the difference between taking pictures and photography. That’s what we teach. A photograph should capture and tell a story, not just be a picture. Just about anyone can take a picture. A photographer captures images that can make someone think, laugh, and even cry. The images that I took over this summer could tell a story long enough fill a novel.”

And what an award-winning novel that would be, as the images he has taken are now being exhibited in galleries all over the United States. His Abandoned Mine Shack photograph is currently on exhibit at The Center for Contemporary Arts National Juried Competition in Abilene, Texas, and at the Vets Gallery in Newport, Rhode Island, produced by the Art League of Rhode Island.

Taking nationally recognized photographs is not new for Naideau, as his photographic works are regularly exhibited in galleries in New York and throughout the United States. Currently, in the New York area, you can see his photographs: “Barnyard Breakfast”, “Vanitas Still Life” and “Trees of Winter” at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook.

Barnyard Breakfast

Vanitas Still Life

Trees of Winter

Besides being one of Five Town College’s faculty members, Harold Naideau is also a published author of two books of his photography, an editor of photographic textbooks, an accomplished commercial photographer, and he has the very unique distinction of having one of his photographs used as a United States First Class Postage Stamp.

One thing that can be said with sincerity is that FTC is proud to boast about this special Professor and Photographer! He not only has a gifted photographic eye but also a gift for sharing his expertise-in and out of the classroom-with beautiful and unique photos.

His work should be an inspiration for all FTC constituents!

To learn more about Professor Naideau and see more of his work, go to www.naideauphoto.com.

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