ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photograph is from my "Chicago through the Looking Glass" project in which I show the city’s famous architecture reflected in various horizontal surfaces. In this case the reflection is in the icy pools on a frozen sandy beach.
The image is flipped vertically, transporting it into the “looking glass world” in which the surface texture in superimposed upon the reflected cityscape. We see both tall city buildings and the ground upon which they have been built. The result is something that looks real, and yet not quite right. Something we don’t fully understand, which gets us thinking. Strange though these flipped images seem, apart from minor corrections, no other manipulations have been made in the digital darkroom. Nothing has been added or subtracted. This is a documentary image: a reflected Chicago as found.
AUTHOR
Born in England and educated at Liverpool University, I came to the U.S. to teach physics at Harvard University, and then moved to Chicago. I started taking commercial photographs in November 2004, and presently have a portfolio of more than 10000 stock images. My photographs can be found in Fodor’s travel books, National Geographic web pages, U.S. News articles, and in many other books and publications.
In 2014 I became committed to exploring a more expressive type of photography. Specializing in photographing the city and its neighborhoods, my images have appeared in various fine art photography magazines, and have been exhibited in galleries across the U.S. My work is currently represented at the Perspective Gallery in Evanston, IL. In 2017 I became an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society.
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