I met Lee about ten years ago when I ran a fashion boutique and mini-gallery/store in downtown Toronto. This was before his move to NYC, where Lee cauterized his role as fine art and commercial photographer. Lee's work does something difficult to achieve; it manages to smuggle the absorptions of literary street photography into the commercial realm and, conversely, pulls the … [Read more...]
The Synthetic Authentic of Maya Fuhr
At the nexus of the Floridian cultural void, there is a beauty to the sun-set drenched, air-conditioned culture of gated communities and the seedy swamp of degraded America. The color palette that paints over much of that dream (or nightmare) is a pastel rich mix of vibrant and clashing tones. Just as the depressed trailer parks and opulent bungalows rub against each other to … [Read more...]
Jacques Oulé: Across time, into the sublime.
Jacques Oulé was born in France in 1958, he grew up in Aix en Provence, lived in Paris before moving to Toronto in 1981. He has pursued an interest in photography for many years, questioning its content and his position in it, and has immersed himself with its range of thecnique and possibilities. As a visual artist Jacques Oulé use the camera as a tool to look deeply and … [Read more...]
Embracing The Strange
A macro still from a video I directed using LED lighting Synthetics and Tertiary colors generate a buzz Plato wrote in one of his dialogues with Socrates: ‘He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession , when he comes to the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty ……beauty … [Read more...]
What is Equivalence ?
A change of perspective is a change in state. Jean Piaget reminds us that, “What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.” The idea of equivalence in photography is richly rooted in a time when photography was beginning to discover its own nature and continues to be a powerful force for discovering our own nature, which is greater than we … [Read more...]
