Larry Chait

Chicago photographer Larry Chait studied photography at Columbia College of Art. He also holds a PhD in pharmacology from the Medical College of Virginia and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Texas. His interest in photography dates to the late 1970s when his research lab had a darkroom.  After over 20 years as a research scientist, he now devotes his time exclusively to photography. A native of Iowa and Kansas, Larry grew up watching the rural countryside pass in somewhat of a blur on the other side of a moving car window.  The memory of those visions inspired his photographs. In all his images, one element is held crisp and static while its surroundings pass in a blur of motion and movement.