More Reflections

Just added one of my favorite images to the "Reflections" gallery on the website...



The flimsy quality of the mylar bends, blurs, and reflects back upon itself, creating multiple reflections and visual chaos. They can be so chaotic that it would be impossible to replicate a particular distortion. They can also be so transient that it only lasts for a fraction of a second, making it extremely difficult to really see the reflection and everything that's happening in it. Photographing them becomes very intuitive- I have to respond to something in front of me without even completely seeing it. Often times looking at the images after a shoot is the first time I actually get to see them.

Reflections in Mylar

For the past couple years, I've been experimenting with photographing reflections of figures and faces in mylar. I love the misty, translucent quality of the mylar, and how it dulls the the color and makes the reflections even more surreal. This is from a press release from a recent show of some of the images:

“It is important for me to find these distorted forms, to experience
the discovery of them and their amorphous, dreamlike nature. I
could never create them using digital or darkroom manipulation.
The peculiarity of the distortion through the mylar is far more
bizarre than anything I could consciously conjure”.

To download the full press release, CLICK HERE

To see more images from this series, CLICK HERE