ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photograph of City Hall in Chicago 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 a puddle on a granite pavement. The image is flipped vertically, transporting it into the “looking-glass world” in which the surface texture is superimposed upon the reflected cityscape. We see both city buildings and the ground upon which they have been built. The result is something that looks dream-like. 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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