Tag Archives: fine art photography

New Artist Statement

May 8, 2014 by Chris | 2 Comments

I wrote a new artist statement to take to Fotofest last month and almost forgot to share it with you.

 

Mile Marker 422v, 16x22Since I was eight years old, I have used a camera to quiet a world that contains too much visual stimulation for my racing brain. The lens gives me a distance from my environment, and acts as a filter to slow the intake of information so that I can capture what is before me. Once back in my studio, I am afforded the quiet space to consider the collected images, the silence that allows the dialogue to take shape. Continue reading »

Peace of the week, April 21

April 21, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”   ― Rumi

Solitary road photographic triptych

Mile Marker 225, Triptych each piece measuring 45″x29″

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Peace of the week, April 7

April 7, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.  —  Steven Pinker

Mile Marker 416, 22x34

Mile Marker 416, 22×34

 

Peace of the week, March 31

March 31, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.  —  Dorothea Lange

Mile Marker 479, 22x34

Mile Marker 479, 22×34

 

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Peace of the week, March 24

March 24, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by. —  Cynthia Ozick

Mile Marker 414, 22x34

Mile Marker 414, 22×34

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Peace of the week, March 17

March 17, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. — Helen Keller

Mile Marker 462, 22x34

Mile Marker 462, 22×34

 

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Peace of the week, March 10

March 10, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. —  Edna Ferber

Mile Marker 382v, 22x34

Mile Marker 382v, 34×22

 

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Peace of the week, March 3

March 3, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“… the wind sprang up afresh, with a kind of bitter song, as if it said: “This is reality, whether you like it or not. All those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.” It was as if we were being punished for loving the loveliness of summer. ”  ― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

Mile Marker 402, 22x34

Mile Marker 402, 22×34

 

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Peace of the week, February 24

February 24, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” — Walt Whitman

Mile Marker 341, 35x51

Mile Marker 341, 35×51

 

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Peace of the week, February 17

February 17, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” —  Alfred Stieglitz

Mile Marker 166, 35x51

Mile Marker 166, 35×51

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