PlaceScapes
In general, we use the camera in an attempt to organize the physical world. It sounds so simple; point the camera, release the shutter, capture the image. What makes it personal … what makes it artful … are the deeply intimate decisions made by the photographer before releasing the shutter. At what do you point the lens? From what angle do you point it? How close/distant do you get to it? From where does the light come? At what moment … what particular and singular moment … do you release the shutter? Do we represent the world as it is — in color? Or do we concentrate on form and line, all light and shadow, black and white?
Each of these decisions determines the elements of the final photograph. Each of these decisions also reveals the mind of the photographer. Every photograph in PlaceScapes is, in a very real way, a self-portrait of the photographer.
Photographers