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My photographic Project

Although I had taken the odd snapshot before, i consider 1995 as the first year I took photos with a serious intent and a more critical eye. In 1998 I learned more about the technical aspect of photography, reading magazines and looking up things on the internet, and I bought my first proper camera (a Nikon F50 (N50 in America).

Christmas 1999, however, I suddenly discovered that I could paint, after which almost all of my creative energy, time and effort became focused towards that for several years.

Though I had periods in-between that I took many photos, it was first in the autumn of 2007 that I feel that my photography started coming into its own, upon my discovery of Adobe Lightroom. With this versatile piece of software I finally felt that I was able to adjust my photos the way I wanted them to appear, to bring out their full potential and make them one with my artistic vision in an easy and convenient way.

Since then, I have spent more and more time taking pictures, taking great pleasure in both the search for subjects and in post-processing. My preferred approach to finding motifs is going on long walks, looking around me for visually interesting things I see on my way.

As I have taken more and more photos, I have tended to take more and more close-up pictures, enjoying them for their more condensed purity of form, colour and texture, often finding subjects that yield painting-like abstractions.

i have chosen never to add or subtract from the scene, and never to do any adjustments beyond what I can do in my software of choice (exposure, contrast, white balance, colour saturation, dust spotting and graduated filters).

One exception is my recent work in "Modified photos", symmetry and geometric remappings that, though they might no longer look like it, they are all photos.

This, the latest offshoot of my photographic work, merges my photography with my passion for painting, making compositions based on photos, but further manipulating them using mirroring and Flaming Pear's fascinating Flexify plugin as well as colour changes and blurring to balance the composition. It has prompted me to take more and more pictures with patterns that I know (or hope - my work is after all mostly intuitive) will work well with this new technique.

There is always a lot of discussion in the photographic community about to what extent one should be "allowed" to modify photos and still call them photos, but whoever thinks of this as an issue doesn't realise that photography is art and that it is up to each and every person engaging in photography, whether it be as hobby or livelihood, to define for themselves what they can and cannot do with their own images. Insisting on letting one's own personal rules apply to others is never a good idea.

Apart from the medium and workflow, I feel there is little difference between a picture painted with oils, acrylics or spray paints and one painted with the adjusted captured light of a photograph. And similarly, the aim of artistic photography is finding interesting images, patterns of light and shade, colour and form, making visible the limitation of the technical possibilities to potentially express something beyond it.

It is all art.