About Rick Lee - Photographer, Charleston, WV

About Rick Lee

Richard S. Lee (Rick) has worked as a professional photographer in the Charleston, West Virginia area for more than 20 years. Since 1996, he has branched out into pastel illustrations of architectural scenes, combining his interest in historic architecture and his interest in drawing which he has nurtured since childhood.

Rick grew up in St. Albans, WV and graduated from St. Albans High School. He received an Associate of Photography degree from Chowan College in Murfreesboro, NC in 1975. He was named Chowan College Photography Student of the Year. He has extended training from Rochester Institute of Technology, the Professional Photographers of America School and West Virginia State College.

Returning to his home state of West Virginia, he began his career working in photography stores and then school photography. In 1978, he accepted a position as staff photographer for the West Virginia Department of Culture and History and in 1980 was promoted to Director of Photography Services. He was responsible for the management and production of the State of West Virginia's photography relating to arts and humanities, the state archives and historic preservation.

In 1984, Rick started a commercial photography studio, specializing in advertising illustration, corporate image and architectural photography. His work has appeared in many national and regional magazines. The majority of his work comes through the top advertising agencies in the region, serving industrial, financial, medical, and high-technology businesses.

Mr. Lee's numerous artistic photography exhibitions have included the West Virginia Juried Exhibition, the Parkersburg Art Center Juried Photography Exhibit, and the Huntington Museum of Art 280 Exhibition: Works on Walls. In March of 1998, he mounted a one-person exhibition of pastels at WVU Institute of Technology. In August of 1998, he exhibited pastels at the Annex Gallery at Taylor Books, Charleston, WV. In 2000, he exhibited 12 pastels in the David L. Dickirson Gallery at the Tamarack Center in Beckley and later in the year was featured in The Pastel Journal, a national magazine for soft-pastel artists.

One of Rick's hobbies is computer flight simulation. Along with several friends, he started the Flight Simulations Forum on the CompuServe network in the late 1980's. This forum predated the Web, and grew to become a major force in the PC flight simulation industry. In 1995, he left CompuServe and at the request of Microsoft, started a site for Flight Simulator on the (then new) MSN Microsoft Network. He has since left the online business behind to make more time for his interest in art and other activities.

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