Sam Choisy is a personal friend and an artist The Luminous Landscape profiled last year. Sam is a French transplant to Canada who carries a very palpably French sensibility in his abstract, romantic, vibrantly contemporary art. His work is entirely singular and based on a unique and intimate method. Sam teaches his approach and philosophy, a hands-on, very immersive … [Read more...]
Between Heaven and Here with Osheen Harruthoonyan
Photography has long opened its doors to abstraction, impressionism, and any number of imported refinements from other mediums. It has, in turn, enhanced and stimulated other mediums, such as painting and even music. The captured image; both still and moving, has continued to penetrate our culture and psychology in ways with which we can hardly keep up. We dream of pictures … [Read more...]
Urban Abstracts
On seeing the title of this article you might be asking yourself "what is an 'urban abstract'?". As a creative photographer who likes to keep my options open, I don't naturally incline towards fencing myself in with pedantic barriers so my definition is deliberately loose – any abstract, graphic image found in a town or city. For the type of image, I like … [Read more...]
Seeing Different- Abstracts
Picture In A Picture I have been very fortunate to have taught a number of workshops with Art Wolfe. He’s one of my best friends, and I am amazed at how much we think alike. Art is an incredible teacher as well as one of the finest human beings I know. He has an amazing ability to see things that we don’t even when they are in front of our faces. After listening to a … [Read more...]
