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Tom Korologos’ photographs combine a journalistic sensibility with an eye for capturing the poetic in the ordinary world. Sights such as agricultural irrigation sprinklers sparkling in the sunset, and morning rays filtering through aspen groves attract his attention. His images are sought after for their authenticity in preserving a visual record of the Colorado West.
Korologos was at one time a journalist on the New York Herald Tribune and the Salt Lake Tribune where he was the Ski Editor and where he coined the phrase “Greatest Snow on Earth” to describe Utah’s snow and ski areas. He has been taking photographs for more than 70 years, starting with his father’s Kodak 116 film camera and graduating to Leicas and Nikons.
Korologos earned his B.A. at the University of Utah and his M.S. at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he received the Grantland Rice Fellowship and a Pulitzer Fellowship.
Before becoming a professional photographer Mr. Korologos had a long career in the federal government, serving as a U.S.Senate staffer, on the White House staff, was in Iraq in 2003 and including a tour as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 2004 to 2007.
In 2003, he was Senior Counselor to Ambassador L. Paul Bremer in Baghdad and in the Defense Department, Washington, D.C. Prior to going to Baghdad, Ambassador Korologos served as Chairman of the Executive Committee and was co-founder of Timmons and Co., a Washington consulting firm. He served in the Nixon and Ford Administrations as Deputy Assistant to the President for Senate Legislative Affairs from 1975 – 2003. He also served nine years under Senator Wallace F. Bennett (R-UT).
In 1980-1981 Ambassador Korologos served as Director of Congressional Relations for President Ronald Reagan’s transition and served both the Reagan and Bush Administrations.
He was born in 1933 in Salt Lake City, Utah and is married to Ann McLaughlin Korologos, former Secretary of Labor. Collections include: American Embassies in Brussels, Belgium and in Athens, Greece.
“The Ann Korologos Gallery gives nuance to the idea of ‘Western art’, tapping into the American West and frontier culture as an inspiration for their collections. Focused on American artists working across various media from painting and photography to sculpture and print-making, Ann Korologos Gallery is an unmissable, distinctively Coloradan bulwark of the Rocky Mountains’ arts scene. Located outside of Aspen in the small town of Basalt, numerous artists featured at the gallery channel the town’s idyllic surroundings into their artistic vision, with particular reference to the town’s reputation as a mountain fishing Mecca.”
