1. Gerald R Fleury
Bio
Recently retired from the healthcare where he provided consulting services in system
improvement, Gerald ‘Jerry’ Fleury is now pursuing fulltime his passion for photography.
As in his previous professional life Jerry is committed to obtain results through very
creative problem-solving skills. His photography mission is to employ the camera to
open windows into uncharted and unrealized experiences, to find that subtle area of
prying self-expression and to find a network of relationships in nature where new
metaphoric images come to light from the darkness. He searches for the unknown and
unknowable. He looks for the light within the shadows, the uncommon in the common,
that decisive moment where the story is not at first obvious.
He is known for his variety of work from abstract to landscape to street. His post
processing skills in various applications supplement nicely his fieldwork to create images
beyond the usual comfortable boundaries.
Every application he has submitted for exhibits have been accepted and his last won
best in show. He recently was invited to two National Park Service Artist-In-Residence
programs—Mesa Verde, CO and Hot Spring AR. He was recently selected for a solo
exhibition at El Camino College.
Jerry graduated from the University of San Francisco with a BS in Organization Behavior
and a MA in Organization Development. His photography education is a synthesis of
workshops, seminars, self-directed study, and experiential and experimental image
creation exercises over a ten-year period. He has participated in field work under the
mentorship of noted professionals as Mary Ellen Mark- Halloween in the Village (New
York City), Mark Edward Harris –photojournalism and John Free-Street photography.
Jerry has integrated his interest. For example, his hiking has taken him to the top of Mt
Kilimanjaro, the Andes, many trails throughout the Sierras and the Camino de Santiago
in Northern Spain. He has hiked, biked and photographed many parts of the globe
including Poland, Slovakia, Cuba, Asia and more.
Jerry gives back to those less fortunate such funding private education for a young girl,
working in a kitchen that feeds the homeless and along with five others raised $200,000
to open a non-profit Ten Thousand Village retail store that supports thousands of
artisans in 38 developing countries.