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Artist Statement:
Eclipse
In my photographs of people
and landscapes I strive to
capture moments of mystery,
lyricism and longing. My
recent work focuses on three
areas: intimate, emotional
relations between couples
using myself and others in
diaristic images based on my
personal life; psychologically
charged portraits; and lyrical
landscapes. I am particularly
interested in darkly lit
nightscapes and late afternoon
light because they seem to
reveal an emotional resonance.
I am fascinated by the idea
that a photograph can be a
simultaneously tangible yet
ethereal reflection of the
world.
Painting and cinema form the
core sources of inspiration,
particularly the films of
Italian neo-realists Roberto
Rossellini, Luchino Visconti,
Ermanno Olmi, Michelangelo
Antonioni (especially
L’Avventura, La Notte, and
L’Eclisse) and French film
maker Robert Bresson for their
naturalness; the German films
of Werner Herzog and Rainer
Werner Fassbinder, for their
emotionality.
This is my working method: for
portraits/self portraits, my
subjects are never really sure
of when the picture is being
taken so they behave
naturally; I participate,
enter the picture frame, and
slightly re-dramatize scenes
of daily life. For night
landscapes, it’s often too
dark to see so I point the
camera intuitively. Using the
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44
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