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I work abstractly and non-linearly – however, my designs do have trends over time, usually with the goal of delaying recognition so a photograph may better dialogue with its viewer, free of labels. Recent techniques have included seeing without gravity, designing in soft focus, and using shapes to continue the photograph beyond the physical frame. My photographs reflect a more prosaic approach to photographic seeing ~ a fascination with the everyday, a preoccupation with the vernacular, an "ordinary," rather than an "extraordinary" vision. I value finding my ideal of beauty and decorum in nature and the simple life. There may be other, more descriptive or poetic words that may be used to define the “pattern” that connects the images, but the simplest meta-pattern is this: I take snapshots of moments in time and space in which a peace washes over me, and during which I sense a deep interconnectedness between my soul, the moment and the everyday world around me. My current projects are polar opposites, evolving abstract design in both natural and urban environments.

Monday, September 13, 2010

My First Movie "The Getaway": Exploring the Still Image in relation to Cinema










The Getaway





The Day

Richard


Elizabeth


The Murder

Exploring the Still Image in relation to Cinema.


Always loved the similarties between Art photography and film..and I wanted to recreate a genre of Italian neorealists and Jean Renoir kind of cinematic Images and those images in the british films of the 70's and early 80's.


A creation of a still Image becomes a matter of an existential collaboration between humans and the concrete world around us. It is bare without the support of an audio track..so It has to rely on the raw emotion that the lighting, composition, and the object photographed. 

I attempt to create an entire narrative that follows a cinematic experience, this challanges the dominance of the moving image and audio visual experience. I also want to explore the simplicity and realism of a still image in a sense, which is not staged in any manner.

I also wanted to recreate a old world feel as I have always admired the images of the masters of photography..



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September 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Luxury trends said...

your images leave a lasting impression and the thoughts linger long after the photographs have been viewed; reason being each photograph narrates a story and as you rightly mentioned tells a tale beyond the photograph itself. I love the relation between art and cinema here...wish I had enough space and my own home to frame them...

September 29, 2010 at 10:32 AM

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