WAVERLY TWP. — The Board of Trustees of the Waverly Community House announced its latest art exhibit, works by Chala Jan entitled “Ethereal Echoes.”
Chala Janpraphsakul, known as Chala Jan, is a Thai-born, Scranton-based virtual creative, digital image maker, photographer and a programmer. After graduating from Hunter College, New York, in 2004 with a Computer Science degree, she relocated to Scranton, where she held a position in a software company. At the same time, she took interest in digital photography, explored various styles and attended courses at the International Center of Photography to gain a well-grounded understanding in digital photography techniques and lighting. She has implemented and polished the essential knowledge on real-world tasks of capturing events and portraits. Through experiment and the flexibility of digital image processing, she was inspired to apply photography as a medium to create images of alternative worlds.
Surrealistic imagery has become Chala Jan’s primary method of expression to create a visual dynamic essence that both radiates story-telling quality and invokes a viewer’s own perception. She has exhibited in various galleries regionally in Pennsylvania and Texas…