Roman Loranc

Above Clouds. Snowy Mountain Landscape, California

Roman Loranc was born in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, in 1956 and immigrated to the United States in 1981. Moving to California in 1984 rekindled his feeling for landscape photography. Loranc has increasingly turned to subjects close to home: the delicate wetlands beneath the Pacific Flyway, the stirring and primeval contours of the Diablo Range, and the sinuous courses and radiant surfaces of once mighty rivers. Loranc’s work marks a return to landscape photography as intimate encounter with land and psyche. His work has been exhibited in many public and private galleries and he was featured in the best-selling anthology “Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California's Great Central Valley.” Recently, he traveled to Europe, revisiting intimate architectural studies and dramatic compositions. He has published three books Two-Hearted Oak, The Photography of Roman Loranc (2003), Fractal Dreams (2009) and Absolution: Fifty Photographs from Europe (2013) and been featured in Portrait of Vilnius and Why Photographs Work.