The artist who most influenced my work this year is John Wall. Wall’s photography stood out to me for a number of reasons but foremost among them were his attention to coloration in landscapes and his distinction between hunting photography and farming photography. The latter is important to me because in the past, I have set shots up. However, this year I am trying to get out and capture things as I see them and building their aesthetic in their natural environments. In this collection I also tried to capture landscapes with an attention to the relationship between the color of the different elements of the photo.
In my opinion, the main things that bring this collection together are two dichotomies: natural vs man-made and circular vs angular. All of the photos in the collection are quite similar in framing and content to at least couple others with the exception that some are photographs of natural landscapes or objects while others are man-made buildings or objects. An example of this is the Golden Gate Bridge photo and the sunset photo in which one is man-made and another is entirely natural yet each have two central leading lines that diverge slightly from each other as they lead down the image. The circular/angular dichotomy is kind of like the previous dichotomy. Photos in similar settings have very different central shapes such as the surfboards and the beach tubes.
