Orchid Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

Silver Halide Fuji Flex Crystal Archive paper printed with LightJet Oce 430, face mounted with 1/8” UV Tru-VU Clear Conservation Grade Acrylic and backed with 3mm Aluminium Dibond. Ready to hang with an Aluminium Black Profile Inset Frame. Edition of 15, signed. In my work as a travel photographer, I take pictures of mountain ranges reflecting in crystalline lakes and jagged cliffs that drop dramatically into crashing waves. The series Frutta & Fiori has marked my first departure from photographing the majesty and grandeur of nature. My goal instead was to focus on a more intimate side of nature by capturing the quiet symmetry of its fruit and flowers. To shoot these images, I placed the subject on a source of white light. I used a light box like the ones photographers once used to view slide film. This backlighting burned out the background. I wanted the purity and neutrality of the bright empty space behind the subjects to let their simplicity shine through. The plain background is also reminiscent of the backdrops in passport pictures, likening these images to portraits. As we would with a face, I wanted to admire the unique micro and macro elements that make these subjects what they are: the myriad shades of pink in the grapefruit’s flesh, the veins in an orchid petal, the tiny patterns that, when multiplied and repeated, become the whole. In their resting state, most fruits are sealed spheres, showing only their peel. I sliced each fruit and examined its cross section through the camera’s lens to get to its core, to expose and admire its essence. I attribute my preference for quasi-mathematical compositions in my photography to my training as a classical pianist. Rigor and geometry are the logical framework to my images in much the same way that the major and minor scales are the building blocks that all music is built from. Available also in the following sizes: 12"x 12" 42"x 42"