"I need to become completely anonymous if I’m to capture the essence, the root fact about the person and not merely their surface."
~Dan Budnik
Many years ago, we mounted a civil rights exhibition in the gallery. It was a subject that completely enveloped me. I knew we needed to have a great MLK image to anchor the exhibition and I subsequently spent months hunting and viewing hundreds of images. When I came across Dan Budnik’s understated work and met him, I knew this was the one.
