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BLACK & WHITE GALLERY
ARTIST STATEMENT REGARDING
BLACK & WHITE INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY
With my camera, I look for visual metaphors in the landscape. Later, in the darkroom (I use medium format film for my black and white images) and in the studio (I scan in my negatives in order to produce a detailed file), I adjust the resulting output in an effort to describe and commit to memory my interpretation of what I saw. For me, this is a struggle against impermanence and a resistance to loss. I photograph with black and white infrared film, because it captures both the visible spectrum and the infrared light that lies beyond what the human eye can apprehend.
Qualities that defy physical description work hand in hand with using a film that records evidence of things unseen. This medium also accentuates the contrast between light and shadow, enhancing a sense of the obscure and the mysterious and therefore underscoring the limitations of our perception. I am obsessed with collecting layers of visual input that inform me, creating an array of spiritual and metaphysical possibilities for contemplation. Uncovering, in a transcendent sense, aspects of existence of which we would otherwise be unaware (since we are all physiologically incapable of discerning whatever lies beyond a limited area of the light spectrum) is awe-inspiring; it is a primary motivating force in my work.
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BOTSWANA_04_7
CALIFORNIA_05_40
CALIFORNIA_05_45
CALIFORNIA_08_4
CALIFORNIA_12_6
CALIFORNIA_12_14
CALIFORNIA_15_4_16
CAPETOWN_04_25
CHICAGO_12_11
CHILE_07_7
CHILE_07_10
CHILE_07_40
COLORADO_04_25
COLORADO_07_10
COLORADO_07_20
FLORIDA_03_07
FLORIDA_03_10
FLORIDA_03_14
ISRAEL_01_6
ISRAEL_01_8
ISRAEL_01_9
ISRAEL_01_10
ISRAEL_01_12
ISRAEL_01_17
ISRAEL_01_22
ISRAEL_01_24
ISRAEL_03_3
ISRAEL_03_5
ISRAEL_03_7
ISRAEL_03_12
ISRAEL_03_13
ISRAEL_05_15
ISRAEL_05_16
ISRAEL_05_17
ISRAEL_05_20
ISRAEL_05_40
ISRAEL_06_3
ISRAEL_08_10
ISRAEL_09_1
ISRAEL_09_2
ISRAEL_09_6
ISRAEL_09_10
ISRAEL_09_11
ISRAEL_09_18
ISRAEL_09_23
ISRAEL_NEGEV_01_04
KAUAI_06_14
KAUAI_06_30
KAUAI_08_4
KAUAI_09_2
KAUAI_09_4
KAUAI_09_6
KAUAI_09_8_9
KAUAI_09_8
KAUAI_11_08_18
KAUAI_11_12_2
KAUAI_11_12_4
KAUAI_11_12_19
KAUAI_11_13_10
KAUAI_94_6
MINNESOTA_08_12
MINNESOTA_08_16_1
MINNESOTA_08_16_18
MINNESOTA_95_7
MONUMENT_VALLEY_04_6
NY_08_2_8
SAN_FRANCISCO_01_10
SICILY_05_2
SICILY_05_7
VIRGINIA_05_7
WISCONSIN_03_3