“An artist has the whole world big or small to capture.” KJ Safer
“Wherever I am is my favorite place in the world.” KJ Safer
Project Statement
We live in the shadows and patterns, the stuff that photography is made of. The images I have chosen for this submittal are mainly color but some monochrome. The focus is ethereal, dreamlike or radiant. I recently heard the famous astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson speak about art vs. science where he succinctly defined each art piece as something “unique” with nothing before or after it ever being the same, as opposed to the science world where everything is already present but possibly not yet discovered. I subscribe to that observation.
I am a long-time photographer from film to digital who has traveled across most of the planet’s surface and still, I come back to basic, straightforward images. I’ve experimented with more cutting-edge and au courant techniques and that is fine, but I seem to go back to my first orientation to the photographed image, inspired by the masters – simple, clean lines and straightforward. I don’t label myself a particular type of photographer – undefinable by category or genre; I am just a picture taker who snaps what appeals to my eye.
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