Linus Gelber

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Artist's Statement

I grew up in New York City, where I still live as an adult, and if there's one thing we learn here it's that nothing ever changes, except for everything.

Most of my work is instant, a stab at pulling pictures from the stream as they flow past. I most often shoot performers - dancers, musicians, circus people - and as with any kind of live photography that means working with open eyes, free hands, and a healthy portion of trigger-finger inspiration: see it shoot it, and clean it up later. The goal is to find a frozen bit of moment that can comfortably suggest the whole, a single step that has the story of an arc. Composition is a fluid idea, a function of seeing rather than a function of construction.

Even in still images, I like pictures that unfurl, moments that mark a place in a day. The sunlight and shadows just so on a wall, a structure with shadows curling around it or with sky or mountains rambling behind. Motion and context are the signature of the photographer: not just any bridge, we say, but this one; not just any icon, but the one I saw as I saw it; not just any pretty face, but this one here, peering out at you from inside my eye.

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