Fred Loring Artist Catalog | Agora Gallery

FRED

L O R I N G

530 West 25th Street, New York, NY

A long-haul truck driver for most of his life, Washington State-based photographer Fred Loring captures the soul of a disappearing America.

During his cross-country travels, Loring would often drive past ghost towns, homesteads, and old farming equipment lying in the middle of open fields. He never inquired about their owners or their stories, but kept a record of them in his mind, until he taught himself how to use a camera. Loring lives in Dallesport, WA, in the Columbia River Gorge, a national scenic area at the end of the Oregon Trail. To collect subjects for his photographs, he goes on local expeditions in search of man-made relics: rusty old cars, decaying sheds, abandoned tractors. A few weeks a year he ventures further east on his newly-purchased jeep to replenish his image reservoir.

Loring’s photographs are unique, in that they undergo a meticulous editing process. Accents of color stand out of a black-and-white backdrop, the glowing iridescent light on electric blue or scarlet surfaces conferring an aura of dreamy nostalgia upon the landscape. At times a faint patina of amber or silver over the image is enough to set the mood. Most of the objects and buildings photographed by Loring are now gone. His photographs are a gift to us; they treasure stories of the past, carrying the voices of those who once inhabited these places, their hopes, their laughter, their tears.

V I E W F R E D LO R I N G O N A G O R A G A L L E RY

Jamming Metal Print 16” x 15” $ 2 5 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Abandon Cars In Goldfield,NV Tilt-shift Metal Print 22” x 40”

$ 3 3 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Bootlegger Car, BW Metal Print 32” x 48”

$ 3 7 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Old Rock Creek Abandon Car Metal Print 34” x 48”

$ 3 8 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Simply Peaceful Metal Print 29.5” x 48”

$ 3 7 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Washington, Homestead B/W Metal Print 34” x 48”

$ 3 8 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Horses Survive The Winter of 2017 Metal Print 29.5” x 36”

$ 3 4 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Old Stone House Ruins Metal Print 33” x 48”

$ 3 8 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Abandon Car, Tilt-shift Metal Print 25.5” x 48”

$ 3 6 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Homestead, along the Oregon Trail B/W Metal Print 28” x 48”

$ 3 6 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Mt. Shasta Metal Print 32” x 48”

$ 3 7 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Old Abandon Black Smith Shop B/W Metal Print 32” x 48”

$ 3 7 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Goldfield, NV Fire Trucks Metal Print 30” x 48”

$ 3 7 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

The Indian Shaker Church and Gulick Homestead The Dalles, OR Metal Print 21.5” x 40”

$ 3 3 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Herd of Deer B/W Tilt-Shift Metal Print 13.5” x 24”

$ 2 7 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Old Abandon Car In Goldfield,NV Metal Print 12” x 20”

$ 2 5 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

I’m a self-taught digital photographer and retired long-haul truck driver based in Dallesport, WA. In my twenty years on the road, I have seen some of the most beautiful landscapes in America. I used to drive past old ghost towns with abandoned homesteads and old farming equipment.

I would head on down the road and wonder about the people and families that lived there.

After years of traveling across the country, I decided to buy myself a camera and editing program, so I could teach myself to create fine art from the images I collected.

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