Currently, Chuck Mankey is graduate student at Penn State University, studying fine art and photography.  He has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis Photography and Intermedia.  In 2010, he earned his Associate's Degree in Applied Science at Lansing Community College.  He has also earned his Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Journalism from Truman State University in 1996.  

     Recently, his work has centered on photographing natural phenomenon and how these natural processes effect the landscape.  He has become interested in how the element of time plays a major factor in the cause and effect between natural phenomenon and the landscape.  In order to do this, he has chosen to photograph landscapes where he can capture these processes through long exposures.  While living in Michigan, he created a project for photographing the coast line of Lake Michigan in an effort to capture the interaction between the lake's waves and the shoreline.  In this work, he has chosen to make exposures in the late afternoons and early evenings in an attempt to bring together a combination of sky, water, and land into a single unified composition.  The purpose of this unified composition is to create a feeling within the viewer of how all of nature is a single, intricate concept.  This is based on the Taoist philosophy of how all things are dependent on each other, how all matter and natural phenomenon are one.  He recently was able to expand this upon these concepts by photographing the some of the natural environments found along central California's coastline.  His work will continue to expand by studying the effects of natural processes on the Appalachian landscape of Pennsylvania and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic area.

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