Roger

Testimonial

Roger brings a darkling eye to New York's hulking bridges and urban palaces - his serene, carefully-ordered visions thrill with a fairy-tale magic. He pictures gleaming lights strung along nights rendered immaculate by precise long exposure, dark plinths and towers brooding under cover of obscuring fog, banks and rows of windows emerging into the stark contrast of illuminated streetlight evenings. In his care the city is a groping, conflicted thing, equal parts monstrous and warm with beckoning.

It is one thing to point a camera at something beautiful and fire off an image, and quite another to paint a city on your own photographic terms. Roger's keen eye composes Gotham and its moments, large and small, into distant, instantly recognized dreamscapes, lit in all the colors of enchantment.

Testimonial written by Linus Gelber