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| Professional Status: |
Professional |
| Specializations: |
Art, Casual, Glamour, Lingerie, Nude, Artistic Nude, Implied Nude, Erotic |
| Services Offered: |
Portfolio Development- Fee Based, Referral Services |
| Photography Type: |
Studio Based (Indoor) |
| Credits or Awards: |
"Toledo Rocks" Supershoot 2004
6 gallery exhibits at Collingwood Arts Center
Mind Over Social Matters exhibit
Dark Visions exhibit |
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| A still-life is as dynamic as its subject. A photographer may seize upon something that enhances this representation, but the representation remains passive. This in part is why I decided to give my photographic efforts a name. I titled it Visions Of Excess Studio. I gave the studio its title remembering one of my favorite texts by French author/philosopher Georges Bataille. The idea of “excess” appealed to me in the context of going beyond that which is prescribed. And, of course, “vision” is intimately related to the artist and the representation they wish to achieve. My personal vision is a dance with structures one might consider all too real: love, death, violence and the urge for procreation. I put my subjects on pedestals and hope that they might transgress. As for my subject, I’m particular. “. . . et la femme sera mon sujet (and woman will be my subject).” I don’t approach photography from an egalitarian stance. I am entranced with the rituals that are utilized in creating the modern conception of beauty as we know it. I find it difficult to apologize for how I conceive or misconceive feminine beauty. It is an obsession of mine. My photography is my lover. It hierarchizes certain representations of women. The girl next door, the average representation of woman, holds no interest to me. I am not enamored with the glamour model, the beauty that hovers and mugs for the camera. The fashion holds even less allure for me. She is selling a product, an unattainable social ideal. My representations are beautiful monsters in a sense. They excite and terrify me at the same time. These are the sort of thoughts that drive my craft on. Psychology, aesthetics, eroticism – these are the motivations that prefigure a photographic session. |
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For people working outside of photography... drawing, painting, sculpture, animation... you name it....
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A club for fans of black and white photography....
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Beauty without clothes. Elevating the nude from banal to sublime....
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A club for all the Alt Fashion folk, of any stripe!...
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A place for the art photographers!...
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Visions of Excess Studio has 19 friends.
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03/10/2008
Yay! Just found you.
:hugs:
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02/24/2008
Hello Visions, Welcome to MB!
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