Blzbubaphotography.com Photographer Jesse Ross
Decorative experimental fine art photography by contemporary art photographer Jesse Ross.
Blzbuba Photography was first created in 2001 as a virtual personal exhibition space of contemporary art photographer Jesse Ross and since then it has undergone many transitions.. even to the point of several extinctions and finally an expansion to an art photography blog. What has remained and what has since become is the most current collection of contemporary fine art photography by this innovative American artist.
A brief history condensed from the long lives of the artist.
Born in 1972 in Crescent City, California Jesse Ross spent much of his formative youth traveling throughout the United States while most of his contemporaries had never been out of their own neighborhoods. This romantic childhood filled with wondrous sights, moods and movements served to lay a firm foundation for a life of consequential instability. Somewhere in early teens Jesse was given his first camera and spent years in a cultural vacuum "making strange pictures" as he taught himself through exploration. In his mid 20's still undecided on a career path and by now insatiable for greater adventures Ross, after some time of initial hunger and homelessness on European streets found himself teaching English for the Berlitz Schools of Language in Prague, Czech Republic. This oppertunity allowed him first real contact with art and artists and he began to realize a true focus.
After returning home to Tacoma, Washington where his family had settled, Ross spent 3 years studying photography and art as well as discovering new motivations for returning to Europe. This time better equipped, he relocated on 200 dollars to as far as the plane would take him which proved to be Madrid. A month later Ross crawled back across the border of the Czech Republic, his old home and refuge of Bohemians and settled in the small fortess town of Cesky Krumlov which unbeknownst to the artist was known for it's artist population. After some seasons to come to a dead end there artistically and psychically he spent the next year wandering from Budapest and Berlin to finally cross the Croatian border in search of a friendlier climate for inspiration.
Ross was living in an abandoned hospital in Dubrovnik until being deported and subsequently hiding out for a year in Zagreb until he was captured on the island of Hvar in false connection to a robbery and finally was forced to spend a year in exile in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina where he made many intimate pictures of the local population and surroundings. Only two examples survived a later theft of a couple years collection.
Upon re-patriation to Croatia Ross moved to the Opatija Riviera on the north Coast of the Adriatic Sea living in the small villages of Volosko and later Lovran until settling in the Austro-Hungarian gardens of Opatija. The region with mild sub-tropical climate and natural diversity, a towering mountain range, fishing ports and ancient settlements was known to the likes of James Joyce and Vladimir Nabakov. Ross lived a year here finding great inspiration from the setting and embarking on several experimental themes. Most successful of these is a continuing series of "blurred" photography still lifes and landscapes which can best be described as hyper-realist treatments. In failing to fulfill requirements in a process for legal resident status Ross again returned to Sarajevo where he attempted to continued the blurred theme there.
Philosophy on technique, inspiration and methods and what the viewer can expect to find.
Ross's photography has matured from earlier primarily black and white works to full fledged bold color compositions. Projects in this current collection include a series of blurred near-impressionist works of various landscapes and still lifes made in Opatija, Croatia, as well as a unique, quirky blurred series made in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Experimental decorative florals can be found in the Shadows on Paper series comprising Tulips, Pink Flowers, Roses and Palms. Other works in the collection are cross breeds of styles, each an expressionist statement able to stand alone.
Due to a nomadic life and like some of his famous photographic forebears, Ross weighs the image through the viewfinder and the psychic surroundings to arrive at the shutter click as only slightly heavier than 'post' production techniques. Ross finds the challenge and sometimes frustration of shooting with what is available in terms of both camera and film. While earlier days saw virtuosity with hand pushed development and darkroom printing processes, all recent work is made with a prayer and a scan to disk to be only minimally edited digitally before being transferred to highest quality available print. There is urgency in the work as of a man on the run (as Ross often finds himself..) which may not claim the esthetic prowess of a good handed rice paper or matured selenium toning but which nonetheless finds itself surprising light having found the heaviness of tangibility. The miracle indeed is that the works even exist.
At the time of this writing (January 2007) still living in a comfortable villa on the Opatija Riviera, Ross is preparing for yet another exile though for only a short time, again in Sarajevo. Ross is not short of artistic ideas for that place which will surely turn up soon in the Blzbuba Photography collection. Come see where the artist has been, and guess where he might go next!
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