Glen Allison

I’m a vagabond travel photographer roaming the globe searching fine art; I’m driven by a penchant to add a sense of visual order to urban chaos. My digital photographic artworks typically incorporate composited images of repeating hierarchical patterns found in architectural facades, windows and doors—photographs that I often merge with elements such as heavy metal machinery or steam locomotive details—image constructions that are blended with various grungy urban textures in a transparent, multi-layered arrangement. Occasionally I introduce bold color graphic elements like circles, squares or triangles placed with an eye to create order and balance and typically incorporating an aspect of subliminal rotational spin.

I have a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley. During the past three decades (except for two very brief periods) I maintained no permanent residence while I photographed more than a hundred countries. My focus was to capture iconic travel photography that is represented by Getty Images through which my imagery has been published in excess of 100,000 times in most of the world’s leading travel publications, including National Geographic and Conde Nast Traveler.

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Bachelor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

2023 Solo Exhibition - 333 Gallery - Bangkok, Thailand

2022 Solo Exhibition - Cotton Contemporary Art, Cyprus, Europe

2015 Solo Exhibition: Château Beaupré, Provence, France