Greg Gerla | Carbon Point Gallery

Greg Gerla

Greg Gerla is a commercial and fine art photographer working from
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

His work evokes a strong mood with attention to craft and style. He’s
represented by several stock agencies and his work has been published
world-wide. Greg has had several exhibitions of his fine art work locally,
and abroad.

He has been an instructor at The Alberta University of the Arts from 2004-
2021, teaching in the Photography Department, Faculty of Visual
Communications. Greg has served on the National Board of CAPIC
(Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators) from 2002-2016.
He served as president of the Prairie Chapter of CAPIC from 2004-2007.
Greg was also a member of the board for the Exposure:Photography Festival from
2010-2019

Greg gets around. He has photographed his journeys from Moscow to Los
Angeles to Cuba to Hungary. He’s continually inspired by what’s outside
his door, or across the continent.

“Homecoming”

In March of 2020 I returned to my hometown of Lethbridge Alberta.

Originally my plan was only to spend a week to settle my Mom on her return from wintering in Yuma. It was the beginning of the COVID pandemic. That week became a year. My Mom’s health declined, and she passed away in April of 2021.

During that emotionally powerful period, I took time to revisit places from my childhood and photograph them. It provided an opportunity to reconnect with the past, but also give me a brief respite from the present.

Homecoming is a selection of images from that time. The act of making these images reinforced the importance of home, family, and history. It was both a creative process and, perhaps more importantly, a therapeutic one.

This body of work is dedicated to my Mother, Doreen Lillian Taylor: 1930-2021.