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John Willis | P H O T O G R A P H Y
Description
hotography provides me with a means to explore the world and my existence within it. I continually strive to heighten my sensitivity in life, and when I photograph I choose subject matter that is important to me. The photographs themselves, as with the process of seeing, must strike me on a personal level in order for me to appreciate an image. As Frederick Sommer liked to say, "It is not subject matter, but a subject that matters."
Often the photographs I am most fond of can be seen as both sentimental and emotionally challenging. Even though I expose negatives on a regular basis, the number of images I feel worthy of printing is relatively small. I am not so interested in offering the viewers an easy perspective with formulated solutions. Instead, I attempt to rattle the viewers' existence, raising emotional issues and questions so they may connect with their own feelings and beliefs.
I have always attempted to find a balance between aesthetic and communicative concerns. At times I feel like a modernist in a postmodern world. When I consider myself a postmodernist, it's due to my concern with the social and political implications an image presents from the conception through creation and onto the presentation's final expression. When I consider myself as a modernist, it's because I am more typically invested in the metaphorical interpretations in each step of the process and the image that is ultimately created, and I am always searching to be moved by the image's aesthetic beauty.
Contact
- Willis, John
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- DUMMERSTON VT
- US 05301-8869
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- 802-257-3397
