landscapes

seascapes


real
&
imagined

 

Photographs of the Berlin Wall and Graffiti in Kreuzberg, Germany in reconstructed place including JB's paintings. Included in WAAM exhibit, FOCUS: ART & SOCIAL JUSTICE, 2022.

Photographs of the Berlin Wall and graffiti in Kreuzberg, Germany assembled with selections from JB's paintings. Included in WAAM exhibit, FOCUS: ART & SOCIAL JUSTICE, 2022.

A demonstration in Toronto, Canada included groups for and against current immigration policies.

Photographed on a frozen pond. The instability of our times is reflected in this environmental still life. The idea of a solid structure is ambiguous.

Dolphin in Doubtful Sound, NZ, Photography, pigmented inks on rag paper

Color film, slow shutter speed while moving camera in synch with water from fountains.

Mexico. From the Walls Without Words collection.

An office in a renovated textile factory in Mexico surrounded by a painting, Color Coded Memories.

Insects attracted to the light at a watering hole viewing station in Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Imagery includes the Indian Ocean photographed in Medjumbe, Mozambique and photographs of oil spills on the street in the USA. Pigmented inks on rag paper 30" x 24".

My photographs begin in Africa and end in the United States where structural modifications of the environment change the way we think, and interact with the people, places and life forms around us. (More available.)

In The Wall, a section of the Berlin Wall was photographed in a small public park in NYC. The wall is a symbol of a divided and violent past but it is also art and was part of the urban landscape. My photograph of the wall has been added to the Namibian landscape where it blocks a giraffe’s centuries-old path. It is once again a concrete symbol of division as Namibians struggle with land redistribution policies after years of German colonization. (The wall is no longer in the NYC park.)

Idealized beach scenes printed on banners hanging on chain link fences hiding construction and beach destruction. (More from this series available.)

The use of photography for marketing and advertising purposes, such as selling a condo, is inherent as the age of mechanical reproduction thrives. Researchers know that an imagined object is as real, to our brains, as an object, which is seen. My photographs include the wrinkled plastic photographic banners, hints of the construction site behind translucent areas in the banner, and the “actual” beach scene where all this is taking place. (More available.)

Sea and ocean collection includes seascapes from Africa, USA, Honduras, New Zealand.