About My Work
Photo by Brian Connelly
of Craobh Rua.
My photos generally concentrate on the interplay of angles and shapes and light. I try and make my work visually interesting and perceptually difficult.
I compose with a point of view that is intended to confound the viewers' normal perspective and view of the world. I enjoy playing with the viewers' perceptual tendencies in ways that make them engage with the image as they try to force it into a more usual perceptual framework. Some of the ways I do this include using radical perspectives, tight and unusual composition, subtle lines that skew the perspective in a way the mind tends to reject and readjust, placing the focus in unexpected places or the simple inclusion of odd detail. I often create photos that are an abstraction of the subject such that it is hard to recognize at first or at all. I offer viewers a point of view they would be unlikely to see in everyday experience so they engage with the subjects of the work and, hopefully, see them in a new way.
I do almost all my composition in-camera. I rarely crop my photos nor do I modify them in any other way from what I captured with the camera. No digital or other manipulation is involved. The prints are actual photo prints (silver halide type processing), not digital prints. My work is in private collections in the US and Europe and the permanent collection at Southcoast Hospital in Massachusetts. I also have a permanent presence at Gallery X in New Bedford. I have a series of greeting cards based on some of my work at Ansel Gurney house in Marion, Ma. Brooks Williams' CD cover for "Blues and Ballads" is based on one of my performance pictures, Art Tebbetts' latest CD uses some of my photos and some of my other shots are on various artists web sites including Cliff Eberhardt and Ann Whiting.
I was profiled in South Coast Insider in August 2007. (If you read the article, that really is a ceiling though).
