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By Kevin Dayhoff
LABELS: Art Artists, Art Artists Grout Phil, Art Off Track Art, People Joseph Sherri Hosfeld,
Photography, Westminster Art Culture Artists, Westminster Bus Birdies's
An article about Grout’s critically acclaimed show appeared in the Carroll Eagle on November
7, 2010. The article may be found at:
http://www.explorecarroll.com/community/4918/photojournalist-phil-grout-shows-decades-
work-birdies-caf/
An article about Grout’s critically acclaimed show appeared in the Carroll Eagle on November 7, 2010 p#1
Posted 11/07/10 http://www.explorecarroll.com/community/4918/photojournalist-phil-
grout-shows-decades-work-birdies-caf/
(Enlarge) Phil Grout of Finksburg has worked throughout North, South and Central America,
Asia and Africa gathering images for newspapers, magazines, wire services, and book
publishers.
Phil Grout, an award-winning photojournalist, fine art photographer appeared for the opening
of a retrospective show of his work at Birdie's Cafe Gallery in Westminster, this evening.
After the war, Grout “came home and settled in rural Maryland with his wife, Mary Lou, and
worked for nearly 10 years as a photographer, reporter, and editor for the Hanover Evening
Sun in Westminster.”
Since moving to Carroll County, Grout has authored three critically acclaimed photo essay
books. His work has been awarded by the Associated Press as well as various arts
organizations. It has also been featured in art galleries throughout the United States.”
According to Grout, “I fell in love with this land and its people who worked the land in my new
rural home. That love pulled me away to Plains, Ga., in the late 70s to complete my first book
as I lived in an abandoned sharecropper's home near President Jimmy Carter's farm, and
learned first hand the rigors of working the land and documenting the “tillers of the soil.”
His first venture into the book world won him national critical acclaim, including recognition
from Publisher's Weekly which called A Spell in Plains “a triumph.”
In the 1980's Grout took his camera throughout the developing world in Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and India documenting the work of various relief organizations.
An article about Grout’s critically acclaimed show appeared in the Carroll Eagle on November 7, 2010 p#2
A second book of photography, “Seeds of Hope,” “grew from the splinters left in the wake of a
hurricane which cut a path through Nicaragua
in 1988,” recalled Grout.
Grout then went on to live in Ghana, West
Africa in 2002, with an extended family of
cocoa farmers to create his latest book,
“Harvest of Hope,” a portrait of those who toil
to bring us chocolate.
“He's the one who really got me into photography. He was a physician and a fine photographer.
He had his own darkroom, and I used to watch him,” Grout told Sun writer, Ellie Baublitz.
At the time, the article in 1995 described Grout's show at the Carroll County Arts Center, also
a retrospective, “Jubilee: A Photographic Retrospective.”
“Like his father, Mr. Grout has a studio and darkroom in his Westminster home, where he
develops prints, standard photos as well as what he calls 'photoglyphs' and an even newer
image using handmade paper,” wrote Baublitz in 1995.
“His photographs capture people, animals, and nature, mostly in black and white, few in color,
some as photoglyphs.
Grout is “Good picture shooter and a colleague in journalism… (We worked together) starting in
the Navy and then at the Hanover Evening Sun… I have three or four walls covered with his
work in my home…. (I) recommend you stop by and see his stuff,” said Carroll County
Commissioner and fellow Vietnam veteran, Dean Minnich
Sherri Hosfeld Joseph, the owner of Birdie's and an artist and critically acclaimed
photographer herself, added, “Phil Grout is one of the greatest photojournalists of his
An article about Grout’s critically acclaimed show appeared in the Carroll Eagle on November 7, 2010 p#3
generation. We are truly blessed as a
community that he has chosen our
stories to document. Phil has an amazing
ability to find the extraordinary in
everyday life - and this show, a
retrospective of forty-four years of his
work, will leave you awestruck.”
On November 6th, 2010, Grout published the following notes and anecdotes about his show,
the art exhibited and his four-decade journey as an artist: “Phil Grout 44/40 in Light.”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/46301381/Phil-Grout-art-exhibition-ends-at-Birdie-s-Cafe-
Gallery-in-Westminster-Maryland
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