Photography in a Digital World

 The best photographs evoke an authentic response within the beholder – emotional, intellectual, visceral, behavioral – stirring one or more of the aspects that make us “feeling” beings. 

 While the ubiquity of mobile digital devices democratizes photography, it simultaneously engenders the banality of “selfies” and makes common what once were rarely captured images. Anyone now can take that “money shot” and immediately “publish” it to the entire world, and the diluted images lose their ability to influence the beholder.

 When everyone can photograph and publish everything, what becomes of photography in a digital world?

 My work addresses this question by removing the subject from its context, emphasizing aspects of the subject that might remain unnoticed or unrecognized by the beholder, prompting the question, “What is that”?

 Portraying “sights less seen,” these photographs remind viewers of their sometimes unfulfilled yearning for novelty: the quirky and unique elements of the visual world often overlooked.