Until Friday, traffic in the HUB Gallery might slow down a little.

After giving them a quick glance, busy commuters might raise a sleepy eyebrow and finally come to a complete stop in front of Kevin Rolly's black and white photographs.

Rolly, however, needs only to close his eyes to "see" these pictures exhibited among the hundreds of thousands he ever shot.

Most of his pictures deal with the fragility of life, said Rolly, a 1990 film graduate.

"The nudes, the graveyard backgrounds and the surreal portraits all are on the periphery of being normal," he added.

The Lamb portrays a tiny tombstone lost in thick and luscious grass with a "baby" epithet in small letters.

"I find his use of the lighting very interesting," said Walt Whitmer (graduate-sociology) who also praised the artist's ability to "look in the women's eyes."

Kathy, a portrait of a young woman's troubled expression, evokes a large range of emotions from fear to sadness.

"I stay away from very literal shots which have one and only one possible interpretation," Rolly said.

Art Titzel (senior-secondary education) said he admired the quality of the light in Beaver Stadium.

"The contrasts between the dark sky and the sunny stadium combined with the grain of the picture make it look like a painting," Titzel said.

"I don't know much about photography but this is all very interesting," he added.

Rolly, who's been recently involved in editing a movie with Emmy Award-winning editors in Los Angeles, said he was introduced to the world of photography at age 8 by his father.

Although Rolly has never taken a college photo class, his senior film project, Diary of a Hitman, won the Student Emmy Award in Beverly Hills and is now being re-edited for future circulation in high schools and libraries around the country.

Many pictures today are taken for the moment and many photographers are trained to shoot what's hip, he said. But he disagrees with this philosophy.

"A good picture is a timeless picture," Rolly explained.