Location472 E Santa Clara Street
Exhibit
Robert Fields Travel Photography
https://www.robertfields.com For more than forty years Robert Fields has explored the art of photography. In recent years, he traversed the globe, visiting over 50 countries throughout Eastern and Western Europe, parts of the middle east, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, and more. The photographs you see today are fine art photographs produced by Robert Fields, one at a time, using acid free fine art papers and archival methods. After they are created, they are cured for 24 hours, hand trimmed, then press mounted onto a rigid substrate. These are the actual photos as they were seen and photographed. Only necessary adjustments are made to the images for printing purpose. These include brightness and contrast. All photographs are hand signed. Limited edition enlargements are numbered in a series of 15 – 50. The work you see today was carefully created by us in our studio. His work includes a certificate of authenticity insuring these are original numbered photographs. Every picture has a story so feel free to ask where they were taken and what they’re about. If you like an image but prefer a custom size, feel free to inquire as we can often accommodate your requests. 
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About the Venue
Ventura Has Always Gathered Here
The Bennery is a community and cultural space in downtown Ventura, and the easiest way to understand it is to stand in the middle of it. Old films flicker on the wall. A record turns in the corner. Local art hangs close enough that you could reach out and touch the frame. It is downtown Ventura the way it actually feels. A little rough, a little beautiful, completely its own. The room has been part of this town's gatherings for almost a century. The Bennery sits on the ground floor of the historic Masonic building on Santa Clara Street, dedicated in 1930 and championed by Ventura pioneer E.P. Foster, the same man who gave the city much of its parkland. Arched windows, high ceilings, hand-painted beams. It was built for people to come together underneath. The Masons chartered their Ventura lodge back in 1871, when the town was the last dependable stop for travelers before the mud and tides of the Rincon, and they still keep their rooms upstairs today. For a few years in the 1940s the building even took in the city's offices as a wartime stand-in, which is why some folks still mix it up with the City Hall up on the hill. This is where local artists show their work and local artisans bring their creations. It is where the music that meant something gets played out loud, where films light up the room and the projector hum becomes part of the soundtrack, and where people gather to meet, to celebrate, or just to sit down for a while. A live podcast studio is coming soon, so the conversations that start here will have somewhere to go. None of this exists by accident. The Bennery carries the name and the spirit of Sam Benner's father, Ron Benner III. A surfer who read these breaks for years, a businessman who understood the weight of a handshake, and a Ventura man through and through. He left us too soon. But the salt air he carried in from the water is still in this room, and his memory lives in every gathering that happens under this roof. The building has held this town together for nearly a hundred years. The name it carries now belonged to a man who spent his life doing the same. You will find The Bennery at 472 E. Santa Clara Street, in the heart of downtown. Come look around, and stay longer than you planned 
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