My Thoughts,
My Mission
So what differentiates a portrait of a person from a picture of an object? Essentially nothing. A photographer’s purpose is a revelation. In the street or in the corporate suite, the imperative is to take surfaces into the interior so that the viewer comes to understand something about what has been presented. This could be an aspect of personality or the structure of a design.
In short, one can say no more than one can see.
Early in my career, I used to fantasize that I could be a Beethoven of photography. The idea contradicts the central principle of the medium. What distinguishes photography from the other arts is time. Unlike music, which takes a single idea and expands it, photography interrupts the continuum and digests into an exquisite moment where understanding, composition, and action intersect.
All this is expressed succinctly in poet E.E. Cummings’ introduction to his volume “Is Five”:
“I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.”
‘Scott is a down-to-earth guy, patient and passionate about photography and creating a professional product.’
– David Wojcik, Wojcik + Associates Architects, Inc
Images on the cusp of the real and the surreal
In my eyes, photography also adheres to Francis Bacon’s maxim, “The contemplation of things as they are without error, without confusion, without substitution or imposture is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of inventions. ” That is why I love both nature and the street and quest for the image that sits on the cusp of the real and surreal. For the most part, I do not manipulate the photos in the digital “darkroom” any more than I would have been in using techniques of the old “wet” darkrooms. Mostly, I adjust luminosity.
My background is in print journalism. I edited photography and foreign and national news for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times for many years before deciding to rededicate myself to my passion. It has been, as the great Edward Steichen once said about the photographic act, “Incredibly easy and impossibly difficult.”
Images on the cusp
of the real and the surreal
In my eyes, photography also adheres to Francis Bacon’s maxim, “The contemplation of things as they are without error, without confusion, without substitution or imposture is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of inventions. ” That is why I love both nature and the street and quest for the image that sits on the cusp of the real and surreal. For the most part, I do not manipulate the photos in the digital “darkroom” any more than I would have been in using techniques of the old “wet” darkrooms. Mostly, I adjust luminosity.
My background is in print journalism. I edited photography and foreign and national news for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times for many years before deciding to rededicate myself to my passion. It has been, as the great Edward Steichen once said about the photographic act, “Incredibly easy and impossibly difficult.”
The global reach of my photography
Nevertheless, the results have been good, and I have won national, international, and art fair awards since my return to photography in 2006. My images are in collections all over the U.S. and in Germany, Israel, Poland, and Venezuela. I have been in many group and solo shows, including those at the National Art Museum of Sport in Indianapolis and the von Liebig Art Center in Naples, Florida.
I hold a bachelor’s in English from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and have studied photography in too many workshops to enumerate. I live in Chicago.
The global reach
of my photography
Nevertheless, the results have been good, and I have won national, international, and art fair awards since my return to photography in 2006. My images are in collections all over the U.S. and in Germany, Israel, Poland, and Venezuela. I have been in many group and solo shows, including those at the National Art Museum of Sport in Indianapolis and the von Liebig Art Center in Naples, Florida.
I hold a bachelor’s in English from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and have studied photography in too many workshops to enumerate. I live in Chicago.
