Metropolis
This collection of photographs represents short-lived reflections frozen in time. It is believed by some, that Metropolis is a fictional city or at best a subliminal existence by others. In actuality, it is real and visible through the curvature of our individual perceptions. Nevertheless, it is where we live and work. It is the landscape we travel everyday and the night we awake from. A dimension of fleeting glances of veiled images, daunting, omnipresent, attractive yet sometimes dark and dangerous. In Metropolis, night can be alive and bright and day can be mysterious and solemn. However, never are they the same.
I view my work as photographic paintings, be it still life, portraits or abstracts; my main concern is content, color, shape and depth. As a self-taught computer artist who has also dabbled at painting and mixed media, I have tried to resist the restraints of conformity while at the same time I realize there is not much new under the sun.
This series of work is a combination of a few themes I am currently working on. It represents, among other things, an attempt to offer a different and voyeuristic look at the exciting and at the same time mundane urban life of New York City.
I am shooting with a FUJI S9100.