PORTFOLIOS
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Déjà Vu
By exploring the concept of landscape in a different perspective, I create fluid images that places the viewer in the image. My work establishes a link between the landscapes reality and that imagined by its conceiver. By questioning the concept of current, I investigate the dynamics of panorama, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Finally, I manipulate the image one last time by printing city scapes onto metal and nature scapes onto wood, allowing the material to show through the image.
Holga
The Holga is a camera, first manufactured in China in 1981, made almost entirely of plastic, some even have plastic lenses. The earliest models of the Holga camera used a 120 medium format film (a popular film format back then). It shot in 6x4.5 cm or 6x6 cm aspect ratios. It was an invention intended for the Chinese consumer as a low-budget, everyday kind of camera for capturing family photos and portraits, but has since gathered many to follow.
Thus, in my work with holga, I have done a wide range of styles, from color holga to 35mm film holga.
Around The World
The famed astronomer, Carl Sagan, once said, "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." I echo that thought into my personal artwork. As a photographer, I digitally manipulate an image into a so called "planet." By applying abstraction, I create intense moments to lure the viewer round and round in circles.
Star Trails
I have just recently experimented with the photography technique of star trailing. Within these images I expose an image over a certain time frame (30min. to 2hrs.). These images allow to show the viewer the trails that stars make at night.
Other
These are many miscellaneous projects that I have created.