Kevin Cruff makes his living as a commercial photographer; his life is something else again.
The life part, rather than the photographs with which he makes a living, is indexed by a Cruff show just wrapping up at wall space (sic), a fine-art photography gallery in Pioneer Square (specifically, the Pioneer Building, 600 First Ave., Suite 322). Its title is "3 mile range," and the concept is that all the photographs were made within 3 miles of Cruff's home base, Magnolia.
As his artist's-statement accompanying the exhibit puts it: "The heart of Magnolia is the neighborhood, its houses and community. Around and within is the soul: Discovery Park, Fishermen's Terminal and Salmon Bay, the countless spaces where people work and play, places defined by the sea around and the beaches, the wooded forests and a fleet of ships moored throughout and below one of the many bridges that criss-cross the canal....
"The images conjured by Kevin Cruff are not really pictures of his world, as much as the record of how it feels to live in a space, in this case Magnolia, to 'be' among the trees of the parks and the rocks of the coastline, to smell the salt of the sea and feel the thickness of the fog as it rolls in and around you.
"When Kevin comes home, he is in Magnolia, literally, though less so in the pictures he makes that profess to the experience of his life there and what happens around him."
Gallery hours at wall space are 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information about the artist, visit www.cruffphoto.com
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