Clearing Spring Storm, Yosemite

About Artist Roman Loranc is a living, modern-day master of fine art black and white photography. He was born in the city of Bielsko-Biala, southwestern Poland, in 1956 during the communist era.  In 1982, at 26 years of age, he immigrated to Madison, Wisconsin, and in 1984 he moved from the Midwest to Modesto, California. Much of his early, better-known photographic work was created in California’s Central Valley. He moved to Northern California near Mt. Shasta in 2006 where he currently resides. When he was 7 years old, his God-parents gifted him a small 35mm Druch (a Polish brand) camera for his First Communion.  He was immediately drawn to the magic of photography; the ability to slice a moment out of time and hold it as a print in his hands. He soon came to feel a consuming fascination with the chemical photographic process that, after exposure to light and immersion in developer, allowed grains of silver to form first on the negative and then again on a final print. It was pure al