TITLE: Moon Rocks

My aesthetic is to produce creative, offbeat, engaging images. The Moon Rocks, in a remote part of Reno, Nevada called Hungry Valley, are granite formations caused by spheroidal weathering (when water seeps into the rock and erodes the granite's hard corners). They are confined to a small area and are not large. By shooting them with wide and ultra wide angle lenses, combined with various black & white films and red or orange filters, results at times in surrealistic images. The black and white films also highlight the textures and patterns of the rocks.


The photos I’ve submitted were taken with 35mm, and 6X6 and 6X9 medium format cameras. I shot various films, such as Ilford XP2 and Kodak Double X. None of my photos has been post-processed.

AUTHOR: Stuart Skalka (United States)

Stuart Skalka has been based in Reno, NV for almost six years. He previously lived in southern California, Las Vegas, and New York City.

Stuart Skalka shoots B&W and color using medium format and 35mm film, as well as digital, cameras. His aesthetic is to create original, engaging images without doing any post-processing except for cropping and spotting. The occasional exceptions are when he converts color digital images to black & white or oversaturates colors.

LightSpaceTime awarded an Artist Showcase to Stuart Skalka in January 2020.

In 2019, through December, he has exhibited in 19 art shows including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Wichita, LA, San Francisco, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, Kansas City, Johnson City, Reno and Portland OR. In October, Stuart Skalka was awarded an Honorable Mention by the New York Center for Photographic Art for his Secondary Colors submission; four Special Merit awards in LightSpaceTime’s Patterns, fTextures & Forms contest; and was a Fine Arts Photography Awards Finalist in the Nudes category. Two of his photos were published in the Abstract (June) issue of ArtAscent. Stuart Skalka has had solo shows in Reno, NV (2015) and Las Vegas (2013).

Stuart Skalka strives to expand the scope of his photography. In June, he participated in a palladium printing workshop at the Weston Collective in Monterey, CA.

Stuart Skalka is a member of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.