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Edward Lance Montgomery united states
Photo © Edward Lance Montgomery
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Kinetic Ambiguity Project, Land Series, Vistas Segment
Edward has participated in art exhibitions, written art reviews, curated art shows, and has work in the Target Corporation collection. He is a 2014 honors graduate of California State University, San Bernardino with a BA in studio art (concentration photography) and a minor in business administration. By way of a 20-year military career, Edward has lived around the world, but has since returned to his home state of California. He currently lives in the high desert city of Victorville.
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entry description
I get a euphoric sense as I engage a mental escape mechanism from the real world around me when I look at this work, my Kinetic Ambiguity Project. Using a lot of camera movement with long exposures, I try to make it easy to see the purposeful blurring in my images. I do this to create the illusion of moving much faster than I actually am. The blurring, along with my style of digital postproduction, creates these fantastical works. Joshua Trees, power lines, mountainous horizons, center pivot irrigations systems, and others, make up the principal characters in this story I'm telling about the high desert – in particular, the south-western edge of the Mojave Desert. The view is mostly from the roads between the Antelope Valley and the Victor Valley. The Land Series is my interpretation of landscape photography. The Vistas Segment of the Land Series is primarily horizon views with a large helping of foreground and background. I hope you enjoy chapter one as much as I do.about the photographer
Edward Lance Montgomery wants to share his creations of manipulated light with you. His passion? Photographic art rendered with his signature post-production formula, creating unique and engaging yet still familiar pieces. The image making process is especially personal for him as he photographs these works in a moving vehicle. This began for him back in 2003 while he served in the Army during the war, on his last deployment to Iraq. Being how he couldn’t simply stop his convoy to take pictures, he would take pictures while on the move – hip shots or “no look” shots, if you will. Initially, the blurry images were culled from the “good” ones, but the blur intrigued him. He never stopped experimenting with blurry images, not even during his undergraduate studies as a studio art major, though he kept this work to himself. The project wouldn’t even get a name until 2013 – the Kinetic Ambiguity Project. Now, you would be hard pressed to find him doing anything else.Edward has participated in art exhibitions, written art reviews, curated art shows, and has work in the Target Corporation collection. He is a 2014 honors graduate of California State University, San Bernardino with a BA in studio art (concentration photography) and a minor in business administration. By way of a 20-year military career, Edward has lived around the world, but has since returned to his home state of California. He currently lives in the high desert city of Victorville.
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