David Fonda

Composition. It’s an inherent and integral aspect of the two-dimensional arts. In most art forms, composition is a creation of the artist. In photography, limited to using the visible world as it’s palette, that composition must be discovered. The joy of that discovery, of finding beauty in juxtaposition within the frame, is what drives me as an artist. The realization that beauty can be found anywhere, given the right frame and composition, is a constant source of wonder. Beauty is there, waiting to be discovered.

I’ve spent my career developing and refining my eye for composition. I earned a Bachelors of Fine Art in Photography from Ohio University in the US. I worked for five years as a photo-journalist shooting every day, followed by stints at commercial, corporate, industrial, architectural, editorial, documentary and portrait photography. In all of the genres I worked in, I always strove for clean, controlled composition and lighting. In creating hundreds-of-thousands of images in nearly every kind of environment, I learned that good composition makes or breaks an image, and that the elements of good composition can be found anywhere.

My images revel in composition. Light and line, shape and shadow, tone and text...

Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio USA

Black & White Photography - The Artist Gallery - 2024

The Shape of Things - Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN - 2024

The Beauty of Madness - Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN - 2022

Field Work: Landscape and Architecture - Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR - 2021