Exhibit article: Part one of two

[P3D Jamie Drouin <jdrouin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is the article on the 3D Exhibition for all those without Internet access:

Pictures in the Third Dimension:

At the Sooke Region Museum-nestled among the stuffed cougars, dusty army
metals and ancient  loggers' tools-is a curious new addition.
It is a small but fascinating exhibition of 3D photography.
It's no the old three-dimensional stuff-not those faded black & white
double photos of the Louvre and the Parthenon that sometimes surface in
antique stores.  These are contemporary 3D photos.  Cutting edge stuff.
There is, for instance, a surreal color image of three Japanese women
appearing to fly through the air on gargantuan compact disks over an
azure-blue pool dotted with swimming seals.
There are also images from the shooting of the new Mike Myers movie, Austin
Powers, taken by a Los Angeles film cameraman.  There's a startling
close-up of a bee and a white spider grappling in mortal combat.  There is
a photo of a orange and green sunflower field in France that-thanks to the
3D effect-seems to invite the viewer to wade right in.
The show's the brainchild of curator Jamie Drouin, 27, a Victoria 3D
photography fanatic.
Such is Drouin's reverence for three-dimensional imagery, he set up the
62-piece show for what amounts to no pay.  The museum did give him a $300
honorarium, but that went to cost of materials.
"I do it because I'm insane," he joked.  "I'm a nutcake."
The display is contained in two small upper rooms.  Visitors are greeted by
banks of viewers.  To see some of the images, glasses (both clear plastic
and the traditional red-and-green lensed variety) are required.
The images were created by 31 photographers and artists from Canada, the
United States and Japan.  Drouin contacted them through a 3D photography
discussion group on the Internet (there's also a 3D photography web site:
www.3d-web.com).  He put out a call, sorted through email replies and
collected the artworks by regular mail.

Jamie Drouin Photography
http://www.islandnet.com/~jdrouin

'the means...exceed the measure of the imaginable'
 Hans Kessler, 16 April, 1933



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