Photography
Portfolio
Light, dark & the sensitivity of a lens / sensor.
We rarely (if ever) make a photo with our eyes closed.
Photography explores how we use our eyes
Artist Statement
My interest in cameras and photographs stretches back into my childhood. It began as a fascination with the family photo album (there was only one). The interest and fascination continued. Today I work mostly with my iphone (a selection of camera and picture development apps – this work finds expression especially in Mobile Alchemy. My iphone becomes my mobile studio. I also have and use a digital SLR camera, and a selection of software applications. Photography has a long, rich, and complex history.
I love making pictures and that love includes exploring the photograph and its many properties. Every time I take a photo, I enter a complex field of opportunity. In a split second I freeze a moment of time. The camera itself has already imposed selective decisions and that selective process continues after the photo has been captured. In one way or another a photo contains a series of veils or filters – technical and aesthetic. As a photographer I explore the bridges between the visible and the invisible. The camera is both the bridge and the crossing of the bridge. That is part of the fascination and enjoyment. The painter Paul Klee said ‘one eye sees, one eye feels’. I would say the same applies to photography.
…to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
Susan Sontag
Process and Presentation
My pictures are best presented (in physical form) as pigment prints — produced on fine art paper, using the latest high-quality professional art-printing services – tried and tested by me.
Sizing depends on various factors, including the motif and the wishes of the client who will be living with the original. Generally, my prints range from 30 centimeters by 30 centimeters, to 120 cms by 100 cms.
I use a number of different presentation forms; some prints are aluminum-dibond-mounted and sealed beneath acrylic glass (“diasecs”), while others are left “naked” and mounted on a variety of surfaces including MDF, a type of sturdy board, Alu-dibond & aluminium — freeing the images from a need for framing — as well as lending them endurance and stability for their hanging state.
All the pictures exhibited in Pixels Paradise are available as unframed prints. Specific sizes are offered in the shop, but other sizes are possible on request.
The physical pigment prints can be framed and placed beneath glass (with “passé-partouts” accentuating their physicality).
The printing process (preparation, choice of print size, paper used) is integral to the final stage of readying a photograph for a new “home”, whether an exhibition space, a workplace, or a personal residence.
The development of my pictures can include photography, drawing & painting (using a range of digital and analogue tools), with their final printed state (in terms of exhibition and purchase) in the formats described.
Artist Statement
I prefer that my work speak for itself, though I am always open to discussion and exchange of opinion.
Through photography, filmmaking, drawing, and poetry, I seek to explore and respond to what I sense and experience in both my external and internal environments.
Perception informs both — and it is this belief (that there are multiple layers of perception, and an attendant desire to explore and present and re-present these multi-layers) that fuels and drives my artistic expression.
I am driven by eclecticism, by contrasts, and by mystery.
I believe in decay. I embrace the lost and discarded, as well as the patina that time produces. This aesthetic reflects what I am and what I do as an artist.
