
Imagery-Imagined
Beauty from Chaos
I was taught to run a darkroom when I was 12, I got my first SLR camera when I was 14, and since then I have been fascinated with the idea of creating images that as much from my imagination as from the camera. Now that photography is as much about digital manipulation as it is about light and lenses, I can indulge my imagination in so many ways.
My work shows the truth of that statement. rarely are images not manipulated, or in some way not what is expected from a photographer and cameras.
ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHS
My abstracts are actually less enhanced than many people think. By delving into the macro world I find shapes and colors that match my dreams. They are single images which have had colors enhanced and details changed to avoid distraction, but the image its self is what nature created out of chaos and the fractals that also create roses and trees. It is a world that I start, with paints, lights and cameras and which nature completes with gravity, motion, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics and whatever else joins the party.
I am often asked how I create abstracts, I always give a vague answer. I really don't know how it happens. It is partly a process I have developed over a number of years, partly it is accident of the whims of natural actions, partly what I see in the image after I look at it on the computer and as I develop the final image my moods and emotion influence me also.
MODELS
I did not work with models until I happened to make a friend of another artist/photographer. He was interested in nudes and costume. He invited me along to one of his shoots. It happened to involve bondage. I am of a liberal attitude and so went along with no intentions of doing anything with the images. The use of models and costume (nude or otherwise) became part of my work not because I had any interesting in the image's sexuality, but because my friend and I and the models were having a lot of fun playing with the props and giggling, as much as, posing , while my friend and I talked about lighting and poses, lenses etc. and photographing.
I find post-processing the images fun, taking the models from flood light studio to unexpected, imagined or darker places. For me it is exploration of the emotional response to the images and places of satire, and unexpected humor.
I would remind viewer that all images are paid models who signed releases. The images are not what they appear to be. I do not consider nudity to be offensive.