Rodney Lough Jr.
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Rodney Lough Jr.
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July 22, 1960 Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Landscape photography |
| Website | rodneyloughjr |
Rodney Lough Jr. (born 1960) is an American landscape photographer and gallery owner.
Rodney Lough Jr. was born 1960 in Jacksonville, Florida. Lough spent part of his childhood in Lake Oswego, Oregon. His first camera, an Olympus OM-1, was a gift from an uncle when Lough was a child. In 1988 at the age of 28, he graduated from Brigham Young University with a Master of Science in Statistics degree.
After graduating from Brigham Young University in 1988, Lough worked as a statistician and mathematician. Seven years later in 1995, he became a full-time photographer. In 1999, Lough received the A.B. Jackson Award for photography at Virginia's Art Explosure.
In 2000-2001, while living in Happy Valley, Oregon, Lough focused on landscape photography and drew his entire income from art festival circuit artwork sales. In 2000, he spent six months out of the year driving to and participated in 32 shows around the United States and spent the other six months photographing landscape scenes. In 2001, his efforts paid off and he was invited to participate in the Lake Oswego, Oregon art festival, close to where he grew up. Lough also opened his first gallery in 2001.
In 2009, Lough opened Rodney Lough Jr. Wilderness Collections to sell award-winning photography in the Mall of America, one of the largest shopping mall in the United States that is located in Bloomington, Minnesota. Later that year, in December, Lough opened his City Center Gallery in CityCenter Las Vegas, a 16,797,000-square-foot (1,560,500 m2) mixed-use, urban complex on 76 acres (31 ha) located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada that opened on December 16, 2009. Along with American glass sculptor and entrepreneur Dale Chihuly and contemporary bronze sculpture figurative artist Richard MacDonald, Lough's works contribute to comprising a Gallery Row of Fine Art at CityCenter. By May 2010, Lough photography success had gained him a fan base of young photographers. One commentator noted in August 2010 that, at Lough's Wilderness Collections gallery in Sausalito, "the jump-out-at-you colors of the nature photography of Rodney Lough Jr. recalled memories of visits to Point Reyes and Yosemite National Park."
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