ASH Fine Art Photography

As a fine art photographer, my enthusiasm lies in crafting images that reflect my perception of the world and the otherworld. I do not transcribe. I do not record. I do not document. I do not report. I prefer to “fabricate.” That is my vocation, my passion, and my vision. While my camera captures the outward—the tangible, the palpable, and the visible—my images only reflect the inward—my emotions, my sensibilities, and my feelings. The banal and the impersonal are sieved out. What remains is my reality, unadulterated, expressive, and entrapped forever within the confines of a frame. I construct my images using digital alterations and compositing techniques, and I maintain full control over my artwork throughout conception, inception, and realization, until the final print. My work, resolutely spiritual, lives at the fringes of the imaginary and the fantastical. It thrives on telling stories about opposites and extremes, e.g., life and death, light and dark, love and hate, hope and despair; a juxtaposition of contrasts triggering visceral reactions, and, perhaps, enabling a further understanding of who we are, what makes us tick, and, ultimately, why we do the things we do.