

The exquisite black and white
photographic portraits of Rock That Uke artists
that play like a slide-show during the documentary's
closing credits, and which are frequently used in press
coverage of RTU as well as on this website, were
taken by photographer Frank Döring. People who met us
during the production phase, when we were traveling
around the country shooting interviews, will remember
Frank as the tall, dark, handsome one with the German
accent.
At the time we met him, Frank was a college philosophy
professor who had recently "left the academy"
to pursue his passion for large-format black-and-white
photography. In talking to him about our project, he
became intrigued enough by it to want to go along with us
on an interview. From there, Frank was hooked--and
Metaphysics' loss became Ukuleledom's gain (that's not the first
time we've had a reason to say that, and probably not the
last). In addition to documenting most of our interview
subjects through his own lens, Frank pitched in with
lighting, gaffing, gripping, driving, interstate highway
cartographic analyses and being a sounding board and
source of encouragement during the project's early
stages.
Frank has a website of his own that features, among other work, a
special page of his Rock That Uke portraits at
http://doeringphoto.com/rtu/rtu.html.
Once you've gandered the gallery of ukulele artists, we
recommend you explore the entire site, which is a breathtaking visual
feast. And to those of you always on the lookout for practical
applications of eyecrossing in everyday life (beyond simply
bringing merriment to observers, we mean), be sure to check out Frank's 3-D photographs. Frank is also included in
the Work Pals area of our "Behind the
Scenes" page.
(Note: Frank is not the photographer of the "naked
uke guy" image we use as our logo. That little bit
of magic is the work of another very fine photographer, Meleda Wegner, who took the
picture of John Derevlany from Uke Til U Puke
back in the early 1990s in New York City.) |
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