Phillip Chee

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Artist's Statement

My photography is a conversation with the world. For as long as I could remember I have always been fascinated with the natural world and our place in it and in the Cosmos. I am a scientist in the generic sense, studying the world and hoping to broaden our understanding and appreciation of its complexity.

As a photographer I am appreciative of our dependence on light. So I look for and emphasize the saturation of colours in my landscape and botanical photography. I often use film or digital cross processing to do this. Astrophotography relies on lengthy exposures and I am fascinated by the process of gathering faint light using both film and digital sensor, light that has traveled hundreds of thousands and even hundreds of millions of years.

The Considering a Cosmology project began simply by glimpsing a bright Venus in the twilight sky this previous winter. It reminded me of my childhood interest and passion in astronomy. I started taking portraits of the Winter constellations and the more I worked on it the more I felt compelled to share my explorations and philosophical ideas about our place in the Cosmos. I also wanted to show what we would lose if we allow more and more expansion of what is known as light pollution, the excessive throw of urban light into what was once dark skies.

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