honorable mention
Peter Clark canada
title
Hit and Run
* Trained as architect at Carleton University, Ottawa, Architectural Association, London, and Architectural Institute of BC, Vancouver.
* Trained in photography 1972-1976 under Helmut W. Schade, photographer, Ottawa.
* Specialized in fine art photography as PeterClarkPhoto in Montreal and Ivry-sur-le-Lac since 2012.
* My approach is to create striking images not through digital manipulation and processing in the studio, but rather through careful observation of the mirrored world around us and technical mastery of the camera to translate light into image.
* Reflections fascinate me because reversing the appearance of reality causes me to observe it with fresh insight, and because the vagaries of light, perspective and surface qualities transmute views into a visual magic realism. I am often transported into a sort of parallel universe where interior scenes coexist with exterior vistas, catching me and the viewer in an indeterminate location within layers of spaces which, in actuality, are simultaneously before, within and behind me as I compose the photographs. It is a type of meditative state, bringing to an integrated point of resolution the duality of “inside” and “outside”.
* Similar effects are achieved by shooting through transparent or translucent materials, re-casting visual information by their particular characteristics, light quality, and degrees of separation of the physical strata in view. I have learned where and when to find these transporting images, calibrating sun and sight angles, tracing them from the sky down to physical surfaces and into the view finder—in fact, as photographer I am the true view finder, not the camera!
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entry description
Cars are ubiquitous in our urban centers- they seem to be parked everywhere! But look closer, and you see that all those parked cars are non-stop busy ambushing passers-by with crazy reflections sliding off in every direction from their smooth curvy surfaces. Who can say what is real? These photographs simply capture images as they happen. And it's not just cars that are ransacking the city: one building looks like it is struggling to escape from a construction fence, or maybe even printed on it. The photographer has a duty to reveal to the public this nefarious activity.about the photographer
* Born July 18, 1954 in Montreal.* Trained as architect at Carleton University, Ottawa, Architectural Association, London, and Architectural Institute of BC, Vancouver.
* Trained in photography 1972-1976 under Helmut W. Schade, photographer, Ottawa.
* Specialized in fine art photography as PeterClarkPhoto in Montreal and Ivry-sur-le-Lac since 2012.
* My approach is to create striking images not through digital manipulation and processing in the studio, but rather through careful observation of the mirrored world around us and technical mastery of the camera to translate light into image.
* Reflections fascinate me because reversing the appearance of reality causes me to observe it with fresh insight, and because the vagaries of light, perspective and surface qualities transmute views into a visual magic realism. I am often transported into a sort of parallel universe where interior scenes coexist with exterior vistas, catching me and the viewer in an indeterminate location within layers of spaces which, in actuality, are simultaneously before, within and behind me as I compose the photographs. It is a type of meditative state, bringing to an integrated point of resolution the duality of “inside” and “outside”.
* Similar effects are achieved by shooting through transparent or translucent materials, re-casting visual information by their particular characteristics, light quality, and degrees of separation of the physical strata in view. I have learned where and when to find these transporting images, calibrating sun and sight angles, tracing them from the sky down to physical surfaces and into the view finder—in fact, as photographer I am the true view finder, not the camera!
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