Rudi Dietrich, Close to Home

November 4th, 2022 through January 4th 2023

Opening reception is 5:00 – 6:00  p.m. on Friday, November 4th, 2022
Artist’s talk and potluck December 18th, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. at the Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St, Springfield, OR 97477

Dot Dotson’s Gallery
1668 Willamette, Eugene, OR 97401
541.485-1771
11:30–5:30 Monday–Thursday. Opening only is on Friday November 4th, 5:00 – 6:00  p.m.
www.dotdotsons.com

Free and open to the public

Rudi Dietrich was born in Austria and spent the WWII years near Vienna. He attended the Realgymnasium in Salzburg and later studied photography the School for Applied Arts in Innsbruck. He passed the examinations for Master Photographer and was active as a teacher and photographer in Salzburg.

He met his wife, Carol, a native Montanan, when she was studying at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. After visiting her home state, he decided, “this I have to try,” and subsequently moved there in 1964. There, he continued his education, studying cinematography and finishing a multi-disciplinary graduate program in Art, Philosophy and Literature with an emphasis on Aesthetics.

He taught at Montana State University in Bozeman from 1970 until 1998, where he was instrumental in founding what is now the School of Film and Photography as well as introducing digital and non-silver photographic processes to the curriculum there. Since his retirement, he has been actively photographing for his own pleasure.

Rudi Dietrich’s personal work deals with the intimate surroundings of his home and family ranch in Dixon. He works in color and specializes in the historical gum-dichromate process. For the last ten years, his work has been largely digital. For him, photography is a way to look more deeply into his life and life of his family. “Looking closely and with heart and eye into the world close by.”

Rudi Dietrich’s work has been shown regionally, nationally and internationally, garnering many awards as well as having been twice-published in the Swedish camera magazine, “Hasselblad Forum.”

Currently 89 years young, Rudi Dietrich continues to be active as a photographer. For him, the most important value is “friendship with the processes of exploring and a constant wonder of growing.”

Rudi Dietrich has exhibited in Eugene under the sponsorship of Photography at Oregon many times. He considers his connection with Eugene “a wonderful gift.”

Check out the Montana State University profile of Rudi Dietrich here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlGCs4nOLus