Eric K. Hatch, Ph.D, has lived in the Cincinnati area since 1974. He has had five careers in addition to photography. As a fine art and travel photographer, Eric has won numerous awards and competitions. He has served on the board of the SW Ohio chapter of Professional Photographers of America. His one person show, “Hard Times for These Times,” 16 prints on metal using architecture to represent human emotions, has concluded its run at the Middletown Arts Center in 2017. "Faces of Addiction," 50 portraits and life stories of addicted people, has had 5 showings since 2019. Ten of his portraits for "Faces of Addiction" are in the permanent collection of the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, NH. His latest project, 17 photos of retreating glaciers, "G;laciers in Retreat" was completed in 2023. It has had one showing with two more scheduled.
The root of Eric's photography is a desire to create images which aim at major social issues by arousing appropriate feelings as well as conveying information. Eric's style is "romantic realism," with limited image alterations. The idea is to enable the viewer to see and feel what Eric saw and felt when he created the image.
