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DaveL

Location: Ohio

I believe that artists discover, rather than choose, their subject matter. For me, women, and specifically the female figure, are the subjects that have repeatedly drawn my attention throughout my career as a photographer.

I photograph the female figure for many reasons. I believe the female body is the original aesthetic object, the source of all our ideas of what is beautiful. Therefore, the female figure provides the perfect subject matter to explore all the concerns of contemporary art, just as it has been an important subject since the beginning of art.

I’m interested in light and shadow, the essence of photography. I am interested in the tension between light and dark, both in photos and in people. Both light and shadow are needed to define the form of the body and the person. Without the shadows that are within all of us, the light is meaningless. In my work I try to examine the dialectic of light and dark; the necessity of each to the other; the dance of relationship that counters value judgments and makes us examine the concepts of good and evil.

I choose to work in color rather than the traditional black and white because color is more challenging. I’m interested in the abstraction of objective reality…finding the truth of abstraction in the things we see (but don’t see) every day. Black and white is too abstract by its nature to be truly useful in this work. And, besides, the world I see is in color.

While I don’t focus on the erotic in my work, I also do not shun it. The idea that a photograph of a nude woman could be without any erotic content seems absurd to me. In some of my photographs I like to allow the model to express her own unique personality. My best photo shoots are with creative models who contribute their own ideas to the work, leading to a creation that goes beyond what any one artist could produce. I’ve been privileged to work with many wonderful models who often work much harder to create these images than I do.

I work a great deal outside the studio, exploring the relationship of the figure to the natural environment. The nude figure seems to me to inherently belong in scenes of natural beauty. In my photos I seek to integrate and show the interaction of light and shadow, form and patterns.

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