Biography

John and Cynthia Orcutt are fine art photographers and avid outdoor enthusiasts. Following a distinguished career as an architect and landscape architect team, they have pursued, through photography, their interest in creating an awareness of the necessity for active preservation of fragile places. Living in the village of Kingfield, surrounded by Maine’s High Peak mountains, rivers, valleys, and lakes, this landscape has been the source of much of their photography. In 2017 their fine art photography book, ‘Enduring Heights, The High Peaks of Maine’, was published and sold out within the year. They are currently developing a new publication featuring the built environment of the High Peaks. Fortunate to spend significant time in other places such as the Teton Valley of Idaho, Scotland, New Zealand, and the American South and West, the couple has developed photographic portfolios of these places.

The Orcutt’s work has been exhibited widely and is in many public and private collections. John is a past Board member of Maine Huts & Trails and the Wolfe’s Neck Farm Foundation, now the Wolfe’s Neck Center. Cynthia is Vice Chair of the Maine Arts Commission, a member of the Maine Advisory Board to the Trust for Public Land and a Director of the High Peaks Cultural Coalition. She is a trustee emeritus of Waynflete School.

Media
2017 ‘Enduring Heights – The High Peaks of Maine’, Carrabassett Publishing, fine art photography book – (sold out)
2015-2019 various photographs in DownEast Magazine and calenders
2018 January 16 interview with Rob Caldwell on 207-NewsCenter Maine
2017-2018 articles in Bangor Daily News, Publishers Weekly, DownEast magazine, Lewiston Sun Journal
2017-2018 presentations to public libraries in Bangor, Auburn, Carrabassett Valley, The Trust for Public Land, and featured speaker in the LL Bean Lecture Series
2017 ‘Valuing the Aesthetics of Nature: The Role of the Visual Artist in the American Conservation Movement’ Symposium at Colby College, part of the AMC bi-annual conference, participant and panelist
2014 Men’s Journal, Online Travel Section
2012 Maine Magazine Contributor, December
2012 Backpacker Magazine, November
2011 Territory Ahead, November catalogue cover
2008 Landscape Architecture, Article, Bug Light Park; So. Portland, ME 2006 Nature Photographer, Article, Photographing Fungi

Exhibits
2020 ‘Distilled’– Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME (solo exhibit)
2020 ‘Portland 2020’ – Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME (group exhibit)
2020, 2017, 2015 Fogg Lighting, Portland, ME (solo exhibits)
2010 – 2018 various exhibits at the Schoolhouse Gallery, Kingfield, ME
2018, 2016, 2014 Carrabassett Valley Library, Carrabassett Valley, ME (solo exhibits)
2017 Couleur Collection, Falmouth, ME (solo exhibit)
2010 – 2013, Joyce Tenneson’s The View Project, Naples, FL, Santa Barbara & Palm Beach, CA (group show)
2012 Maine State House, Augusta, ME (exhibitor with Hugh Verrier)
2011 Chocolate Church, Bath, ME (group show)
2011 New Portland Public Library, New Portland, ME (solo exhibit)
2010 Maine Huts & Trails – all four huts (ongoing)
2008 Drummond & Woodsum, Portland, ME (solo exhibit)
2007 Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, Brunswick, ME (solo exhibit)
2005 Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, Brunswick, ME (solo exhibit)
2006 GroSmart Maine, Yarmouth, ME (solo exhibit)
2004 D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Stock Agency Representation
Cavan Images, New York, NY
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