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Artist finds new focus after wife’s death
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The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.)
mages of Spokane’s past beckon Mike Forster, an artist who found his way back to creativity through a lens. It was difficult for Forster, 72, to do any art after the death of his longtime wife, Dorothy, in 2017. He also suffers from back pain and is hard of hearing. COLIN MULVANY, THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW VIA TNS Friends sometimes drive him around. When Forster started taking photos with Photographer and artist Mike Forster is dealing with health issues and the passing of his his digital camera by fall 2018, he became inwife. To help him cope, his friends have encouraged him to display his photography at local trigued by decades-old Spokane homes and bars and art galleries.
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other icons. He captures them with unusual angles and lighting, and the results have grown into what he calls Vintage Spokane Photos. “I’m gradually coming back to art,” Forster said. “I’m also a painter, but I got into this photography because of space. It doesn’t require much space, and I found it really satisfied a creative urge. “I take photos of classic icons in Spokane and old buildings. We have so many old buildings and homes here that I’m trying to capture in a different light. They speak to me.”
