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Mitch Dobrowner, Supercell Swirles & Lightening, Clayton, New Mexico, 2022, 20x30", Edition of 25, $2,500

In case you missed it, we're happy to share the recording of our live Zoom conversation with Mitch Dobrowner, the first segment of photo-eye Conversations: LIVE!

The Zoom gathering was a relaxed chat between Gallery Director Anne Kelly and photographer Mitch Dobrowner, followed by a Q&A.

Dobrowner has been traveling across the country with professional storm chasers for over a decade with the goal of capturing the calm amidst the storm. Though this seems counterintuitive, Dobrowner's hyper-technical approach and incredibly focused compositional eye enable him to find a sense of grounding even during the most extreme weather events. The translation of this imagery into flawless black-and-white prints provides the viewer with that same sense of peace, even among the chaos, a moment of stillness can always be found.

>> See more images by Mitch Dobrowner <<
>> Learn more about Mitch Dobrowner <<

Mitch Dobrowner was born in 1956 in Long Island, Bethpage, New York. Worried about Mitch's future and the direction his life will take, his father decided to give him an old Argus rangefinder to fool around with—little did he realize that it would become a significant gesture for Mitch. After doing some research, and seeing work by Minor White and Ansel Adams, Mitch quickly became addicted to photography.

Years later, in early 2005, inspired by his wife, children and friends—he again picked up his camera. Working with professional storm chaser Roger Hill, Dobrowner has traveled throughout Western and Midwestern America to capture nature in its full fury; making extraordinary images of monsoons, tornados, and massive thunderstorms with the highest standard of craftsmanship.

Dobrowner’s Storms series has attracted considerable media interest from National Geographic, Time, and New York Times Magazine, among others. In August of 2022 a print of the image Rope Out, from a private collection, has been acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Other museums that have acquired Mitch's work include The Center of Creative Photography, Tucson AZ; The National Gallery of Art, Washingon D.C.; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston TX; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleaveland OH; Portland Museum of Art, Portland OR; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA; and the Middlebury Museum of Art, Middlebury VA.

He lives with his family in Studio City, California.

photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent artist Mitch Dobrowner.

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August 17, 2023 / @6pm MT

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If you are in Santa Fe, please stop by during gallery hours or schedule a Virtual Visit HERE.

For more information, and to reserve one of these unique works, please contact

Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Jovi Esquivel.

You may also call us at (505) 988-5152 x202

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David Trautrimas, We Had All The Time In The World, 2022, Archival pigment print, 20x30", Edition of 4, $1200

This week, we are so excited to premier brand new photographs from gallery artist, David Trautrimas!

David Trautrimas is an artist/photographer/all-around maker hailing from Toronto, Canada. Here at photo-eye, we know David for his series, Habitat Machines, wherein the artist dissembled and photographed household goods before using these components to digitally create an architectural space. The importance of space continues to be important in Trautrimas’ newest series, which turns the focus inward. Using Cinema 4D and the digital toolbox that comes with it, Trautrimas has spent the pandemic crafting uncanny, entrancing images of his own interior life that resonate across Western culture.

photo-eye's Gallery Director, Anne Kelly recently sat down with Trautrimas for a conversation! They talk modernist architecture, materiality and conceptual flexibility. View the video and learn more about David Trautrimas below!

photo-eye Conversations | David Trautrimas & Anne Kelly from photo-eye on Vimeo.

>> David Trautrimas on the Practice of Deconstruction! <<

>> Habitat Machines at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art <<

David Trautrimas, Never Ready For All The Attention, 2022, Archival pigment print, 20x30", Edition of 4, $1200

David Trautrimas, The Fear of Getting Old, 2022, Archival pigment print, 30x20", Edition of 4, $1200

David Trautrimas, Ghoster Coaster, 2022, Archival pigment print, 20x30", Edition of 4, $1200

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Print costs are current up to the time of posting and are subject to change.

photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent David Trautrimas.

For more information, and to purchase prints from David Trautrimas please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

Reuben Wu, XT1876, Archival pigment print, 22 x 30," Edition of 10, $2400

This week at photo-eye, we're premiering the newest installment of our photo-eye Conversations series! Listen to Reuben Wu and Gallery Director Anne Kelly discuss the finer points of NFTs

What is an NFT? It seems like they appeared out of thin air in early 2021 — and now everyone is talking about them! The truth is that NFT’s (non-fungible tokens) have been around for about a decade now, but it wasn't until recently that they entered mainstream discourse around art and technology. How and why did they go mainstream? Most people credit the Beeple NFT sale at Christie's this March; there, Beeple (who is also known as Mike Winkelmann) sold "Everyday: The First 5000 Days" for $69 million at auction. At this price point, the story spread like wildfire, but, again what actually sold? What is a non-fungible token, and what could they mean for the art world? There is no question that they have entered the mainstream market, but even so, a lot of people are still confused about what they are and what they mean for the art world…

After receiving some encouragement from other NFT artists, In the Spring of 2021, photo-eye Gallery artist Reuben Wu decided to give it a try! Since then you may have heard his name pop up in conversations about NFTs as one of the first image-based artists to utilize this digital space. In this installment of photo-eye Conversations, Reuben Wu and Gallery Director Anne Kelly offer some insight into the world of NFTs. Reuben shares the story of how he came to “mint” his first NFT, what the result was, his current opinions, and where he thinks NFTs are going.

Spoiler Alert — Wu believes that NFTs are here to stay, but no need to fear, Reuben has no plans to stop making prints (on paper) anytime soon.

>> View Reuben Wu’s work here! <<

Watch the illuminating conversation between Anne and Reuben below, and check out our glossary of NFT terms below, for reference!

NFT: Non-Fungible Token is a unique piece of the blockchain that is truly one of a kind. It isn’t fungible (replaceable). Think about it this way — two mass-produced reproductions of the Mona Lisa are fungible, but the original Mona Lisa painting is non-fungible.

Blockchain: A blockchain is a secure digital ledger that tracks the transactions involving and ownership of an NFT or a cryptocurrency. Since NFT’s live on a blockchain, all of their changes in ownership and value can be quantifiably tracked! In an art world context, you can think about the blockchain as a way of keeping track of an NFT’s provenance.

Cryptocurrency: A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that is secured by cryptography, which makes it nearly impossible to counterfeit or double-spend.

Ether (ETH): The cryptocurrency native to the Ethereum platform with which most NFT’s are bought and sold.

Ethereum: A decentralized, open-source blockchain platform that allows for secure storage of both currency and information.

Gas: This is, essentially, the fee that you pay to make a transaction on the Ethereum blockchain, where most NFT’s live. Since ETH is mined in finite supply, these fees rise and fall in step with supply and demand.

Metaverse: A world shared between the physical and digital realm. Though this concept originally belongs to science fiction, due to the increase in popularity of cryptocurrencies and NFT’s alongside the prevalence of the internet in daily life, the term can be used to mean now.

Mine (mining): The process of adding small bits of cryptocurrency to the blockchain through complex computer methods that verify and validate transactions.

Mint (minting): Minting an NFT is the process of authenticating that original file (be it an image, a video, a music file, etc) and formally adding it to the blockchain. This can’t be done without paying gas fees.

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>> More work from Reuben Wu! <<

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photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent Reuben Wu.

For more information, and to purchase prints by Thomas Jackson please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

In honor of the closing of Reshaping the Earth: Energy and the Environment, an exhibition featuring photographs by Jamey Stillings and David Emitt Adams, we are pleased to share a recent segment of photo-eye Conversations LIVE with David and Jamey. Below the video, are a few installation shots if you haven't visited the gallery yet.

In this segment of photo-eye Conversations, Adams and Stillings engage in a conversation about their work, including in Reshaping the Earth: Energy and the Environment. If you're short on time, or would just like a taste, we also made two 5-minute videos you can watch: David Emitt Adams discussing his work (here) and Jamey Stillings talking about his work and his new book (here).

Enjoy!

Jamey Stillings' aerial photos document renewable energy projects and mining in Chile's Atacama desert, a region rich in natural resources like lithium, copper, gold, and iron ore.

David Emitt Adams uses historical photographic techniques to explore industrial landscapes from the American oil industry in his Power series. He captures the images using a custom-built camera and prints directly on 55-gallon steel oil drum lids using wet plate collodion chemistry.

View more work by David Emitt Adams here

View more work by Jamey Stillings here

Order Jamey Stillings' new book here

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If you are in Santa Fe, please stop by we are open Tuesday– Saturday, from 10am- 5:30pm.

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY
300 Rufina Circle, Unit A3, Santa Fe, NM 87507

For more information, and to reserve one of these unique works, please contact
Gallery Director Anne Kelly
You may also call us at (505) 988-5152 x202

Cig Harvey, The Blue Hole, 2020, archival pigment print, 16" x 20," Edition of 10, $3000

This week, as a part of our photo-eye Conversations series, we're premiering a new interview with artist Cig Harvey!

Cig Harvey is a fine art photographer who keeps her eyes and ears open. Harvey’s images are excellent examples of how simple elements of color and composition in photographs can deeply effect the viewer. The sheer lushness of her botanical subject matter invites the viewer to engage, and then engage again. The artist feels an intimate and electric connection with the plants and people that she photographs, and this emotional intrigue translates into each and every image.

Cig Harvey also cultivates a regular writing practice alongside her photography. Harvey has released three major publications, You an Orchestra You a Bomb, Gardening at Night, and You Look at Me Like an Emergency prior to the release of Blue Violet, Cig Harvey’s most recent monograph, published by Monacelli Press. Blue Violet is a book that demands attention. Its size, the tactility of the stretched fabric across the cover, the bright colors that can’t help but to catch your eye from across the room — they all echo the intensity with which Cig Harvey makes her work.

As Blue Violet prepares for its second printing, which is available for pre-order now, Anne Kelly caught up with Cig to talk about the work in our accompanying online exhibition. Don’t miss this insightful conversation, available below or on Vimeo!

>> Check out more photo-eye Conversations
>> Order the second printing of Blue Violet

In the words of Cig Harvey, Blue Violet is a celebration of the natural world and the senses…[It] is a vibrant meditation on the procession of seasons, sensory abundance, and the magic in everyday life.” Our online exhibition of this work showcases images that tie the sensory world to the material one, and leaves room for the moments of passing in between.

View images from the show below, and circle back to our interview with Cig Harvey to hear more from the artist about each photograph!

Cig Harvey, All the Rhododendrons, 2020, archival pigment print, 20" x 16," Edition of 10, $3000

Cig Harvey, Rhododendrons and Ladder, 2020, archival pigment print, 20" x 16," Edition of 10, $3000

“It’s so important to let photography lead you, it will reveal so much more if you just get out of the way of yourself, and follow the light.” - Cig Harvey

Cig Harvey, Emily in the River, 2020, archival pigment print, 20" x 16," Edition of 10, $3000

>>Watch the photo-eye Conversation between Cig Harvey and Gallery Director Anne Kelly on Vimeo

>> Order the second printing of Blue Violet through the photo-eye Bookstore

>> View Blue Violet, the online exhibition, built with VisualServer X

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All prices listed were current at the time this post was published.

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

Mitch Dobrowner, Sunrise Over Lone Pine, 2020, archival pigment ink, 16 x 30 inches, edition of 25, $2500

Mitch Dobrowner has been photographing dramatic landscapes since his late teens. Moreover, working with professional storm chasers since 2009, he has traveled throughout America to capture extreme natural events, making stunning images of supercell storms and tornados. By waiting for the light and atmosphere to paint the landscape to his liking — accented by his custom-modified camera and long hours in the digital darkroom — Dobrowner has developed an unmistakable poetic style in the tradition of photography masters such as Ansel Adams and Minor White. With his high contrast expansive photographs of severe weather systems and towering majestic mountain ranges — with swirling clouds and sublime light — Mitch Dobrowner has perfected the craft of landscape photography.

Recently, as part of our new video series, photo-eye Conversations, photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly asked Dobrowner about his practice and most recent work. Ironically, a thunderstorm rolled through the Santa Fe area as the interview was taking place — it could not have been planned better! Watch this stimulating conversation below or on Vimeo.

» View Work by Mitch Dobrowner

The Eastern Sierra Nevada has always been a major inspiration for me - and a reason why I started photographing the landscapes of the Desert Southwest. Owens Valley, the Alabama Hills and specifically the town of Lone Pine was one of the first areas I spent time exploring when I first arrived in California (30+ years ago). The sight and majesty of Lone Pine Peak and Mount Whitney is a spiritual experience. The Ansel Adams Wilderness and the history of the Paiute (Native American Tribes) resonate with me..... just as the Navajo people resonate with me during my journeys into Southern Utah and New Mexico. The image represents to me how I see and feel about this area. Because of all these feelings, the kindness of the local people and the rough, rustic lifestyle are some of the reasons I've also decided to take up residence in this amazing area. — Mitch Dobrowner on Sunrise Over Lone Pine

Mitch Dobrowner's work has recently been featured in the New York Times Magazine. His stunning photographs illustrate the extreme weather in the Córdoba Province of Argentina. Read the full story and view Dobrowner's extraordinary work here.

Artist Bio:
Mitch Dobrowner was born in 1956 in Long Island, Bethpage, New York. Worried about Mitch's future and the direction his life will take, his father decided to give him an old Argus rangefinder to fool around with. Little did he realize what an important gesture that would turn out to be for Mitch. After doing some research and seeing the images of Minor White and Ansel Adams, he quickly became addicted to photography. Years later, in early 2005, inspired by his wife, children and friends — he again picked up his camera. Working with professional storm chaser Roger Hill, Dobrowner has traveled throughout Western and Midwestern America to capture nature in its full fury, making extraordinary images of monsoons, tornados, and massive thunderstorms with the highest standard of craftsmanship. Dobrowner’s storm series has attracted considerable media interest (National Geographic, Time, New York Times Magazine, among others). He lives with his family in Studio City, California.

Mitch Dowbroner at photo-eye Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2017

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For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Staff at
505-988-5152 x202 or gallery@photoeye.com

Patty Carroll, Victorian Birds, archival pigment ink print, 15 x 15 inches, edition of 20, $900

A quick glance at Victorian Birds reveals a figure sitting with her head buried in a desk. Weighted down by a heavy deep red velvet robe, in a somber green draped room, she is surrounded by birds of all kinds. Red parakeets pose on her, one on her left hand. A birdcage and an arrangement of regal peacock feathers are placed in the foreground. This photograph is simultaneously compelling, intimate, serious, humorous and sad. The sense of contradiction and frustration expressed in the image is exacerbated by the double-meaning of the Victorian bird figurines — by the confused symbols of freedom and enslavement they represent. During the Victorian era, women did not have the right to vote, sue or own property.

Patty Carroll is well-known for her heavily saturated, intense color images of domestic landscapes. Both, growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and her background in graphic design have informed much of her work. Throughout her career, she has also found inspiration in colorful vintage movies, decorating magazines and Victorian writing.

In her studio, Carroll creates ornamented and imagined domestic scenes using mannequins as her models. Inundated by over-decorated rooms and engulfed by a multitude of objects, she photographs them with her digital medium-format camera.

Carroll's work brilliantly addresses the complex relationship women have with domestic life — her captivating images portray everyday women who juggle home, family and careers.

As part of our video series photo-eye Conversations, photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly interviewed Carroll about her photographic practice and her book Domestic Demise. This fabulous book comprises the fourth part of Carroll's ongoing photographic series “Anonymous Women.” Watch this amazing conversation below or on Vimeo.

Don't miss the limited edition of Domestic Demise, exclusively found at photo-eye Bookstore! Limited to an edition of 5, this set includes a signed and numbered print of Shadow of Her Former Self with a signed copy of the book.

Image size: 7x7 inches; paper size: 8½ x 8½ inches.

Signed Copies $45.00 Limited Edition $130.00

» Order the Book

Patty Carroll, Shadow of Her Former Self, archival pigment ink, 15 x 15 inches, edition of 20, $900

» View More Work by Patty Carroll

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For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Staff at
505-988-5152 x202 or gallery@photoeye.com


Byron Checking the Position of the Moon with His Laptop Flaming Gorge, WY, 1997, gelatin-silver print, 20 x 24 in, $3500

As part of our video series photo-eye Conversations, photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly and Mark Klett do a virtual walk-through of Seeing Time: A Forty Year Retrospective, his recent online exhibition. They also discuss the artist's prolific career and the making of his book. Watch this stimulating conversation below or on Vimeo.

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Anne Kelly, Gallery Director at photo-eye (photo credit: Dave Hyams) & artist self-portrait © Mark Klett, One hour, 52nd Birthday 9/9/04

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Seeing Time: A Forty Year Retrospective, an online solo exhibition by renowned photographer Mark Klett, is the first in a series of our Gallery’s major online shows that use photoeye’s revolutionary new VisualServer X website builder.

Held in honor of his new book Seeing Time (University of Texas Press, 2020), this exhibition presents selected photographs from thirteen different projects, some never before seen. An artist of singular originality and vision, award-winning landscape photographer Mark Klett has built a profound and dynamic career that captures the space and history of the American West while evoking notions of time, perception, and cultural memory.

The online show showcases approximately 100 images. Also, a selection of this work is currently on view at photo-eye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. Contact the gallery at gallery@photoeye.com or 505-988-5152 x121 to schedule your visit!

Saguaros, individual 20 x 16 inches gelatin-silver prints, if available, prices are $3500 each

» View More Work by Mark Klett

» Purchase Mark Klett's Book Seeing Time

Hardbound [Signed] $85.00
Limited Edition: $150.00
About the Limited Edition:

Each print offered for our photo-eye Exclusive Limited Edition is 6" x 7½" and signed in an edition of 20.

Previous print editions, including Beneath the Great Arch, Bullet Riddled Saguaro, and Spiral
Carving Facing East, have all sold out!

Limited Edition — Campsite reached by boat through watery canyons, Lake Powell. Only 4 prints left!

Campsite reached by boat through watery canyons, Lake Powell

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All prices listed were current at the time this post was published.

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

Edward Bateman, Leaf No. 38c2, 2017, archival pigment print, edition of 7, $700

Photographer Edward Batman's most recent work is concerned with the idea that the essence of life is fleeting. And indeed, the images from his series Reversing Photosynthesis — new this week to the Photographer's Showcase — are imbued with a sense of impermanence.

For nearly two decades, Bateman has used digital photographic processes to construe three-dimensional modeled objects that have never had a physical existence outside the computer to begin with. In a new artistic direction for him — inspired by his own aging process and a sense of mortality — Bateman has now sought to tame light, photography's basic ingredient, without the use of technology or camera equipment.

Bateman places leaves directly on unexposed photographic paper, then keeps them in total darkness for days or even months to document their decay. By releasing their captured sunlight, as if undoing photosynthesis photographically, they leave exposed their beautiful fragility on rag paper. Inherently, Reversing Photosynthesis places a focus in the transience of life — perhaps a subtle reminder that the nature of everything is bound to change, pass, or come to an end. photo-eye is excited to welcome Edward Bateman to the Photographer's Showcase!

» View Work by Edward Bateman

Recently, as part of our new video series, photo-eye Conversations, photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly asked Bateman about his photographic practice and the process of creating Reversing Photosynthesis among other recent bodies of work. Watch this inspiring conversation below or on Vimeo.

Artist Bio:
Edward Bateman is an artist and professor at the University of Utah. Through constructed and often anachronistic imagery, he creates alleged historical artifacts that examine our belief in the photograph as a reliable witness. In 2009, Nazraeli Press released a signed and numbered book of his work titled Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny, that explores 19th-century automatons as a metaphor for the camera, stating: "For the first time in human existence, objects of our own creation were looking back at us.” Bateman and his work have been included in the third edition of "Seizing the Light: A Social and Aesthetic History of Photography" by Robert Hirsch. His work has been shown internationally in over twenty-eight countries and is included in the collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Getty Research among others.

Anne Kelly, Gallery Director at photo-eye (photo credit: Dave Hyams) & portrait of Edward Bateman (photo credit: Michael Marcinek)

Preview of forthcoming series mentioned in conversation

» Order Edward Bateman's One Picture Book #58

Limited quantities available

Books mentioned in the interview and available for purchase at photo-eye Bookstore:

Expired Paper
Alison Rossiter
Cat# DS978 ISBN-13: 978-1942185338

Versus
David Jiménez

Imago Ergo Sum

Joan Fontcuberta
Cat# DS599S (978-8416248353)

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For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Staff at
505-988-5152 x202 or gallery@photoeye.com

>> See more images by Mitch Dobrowner <<
>> Learn more about Mitch Dobrowner <<

SAVE THE DATE!

photo-eye Conversations: LIVE w/ Kate Breakey

August 17, 2023 / @6pm MT

RSVP

photo-eye Gallery

>> David Trautrimas on his Practice of Deconstruction! <<

>> Habitat Machines at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art! <<

>> David Trautrimas on the Practice of Deconstruction! <<

>> Habitat Machines at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art <<

>> View Reuben Wu’s work here! <<

Watch the illuminating conversation between Anne and Reuben below, and check out our glossary of NFT terms below, for reference!

>> More photo-eye Conversations <<

>> More work from Reuben Wu! <<

>> Check out more photo-eye Conversations
>> Order the second printing of Blue Violet

“It’s so important to let photography lead you, it will reveal so much more if you just get out of the way of yourself, and follow the light.” - Cig Harvey

>>Watch the photo-eye Conversation between Cig Harvey and Gallery Director Anne Kelly on Vimeo

>> Order the second printing of Blue Violet through the photo-eye Bookstore

>> View Blue Violet, the online exhibition, built with VisualServer X

» View Work by Mitch Dobrowner

» Order the Book

» View More Work by Patty Carroll

» View Work by Edward Bateman

» Order Edward Bateman's One Picture Book #58

Books mentioned in the interview and available for purchase at photo-eye Bookstore:

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SAVE THE DATE!

photo-eye Conversations: LIVE w/ Kate Breakey

August 17, 2023 / @6pm MT

Watch the illuminating conversation between Anne and Reuben below, and check out our glossary of NFT terms below, for reference!

“It’s so important to let photography lead you, it will reveal so much more if you just get out of the way of yourself, and follow the light.” - Cig Harvey

Books mentioned in the interview and available for purchase at photo-eye Bookstore: