Esoteric Photo + Design is a boutique fine art photography studio specializing in producing true photo quality, archival caliber photographic artwork. Photographs are created and curated based on concepts and themes as an expression. Collections and works are also considered in a way to be useful to designers by ensuring each work is not only aesthetically pleasing to look at but enriching to contemplate, and can fit the intended use. Only very limited editions are produced to ensure the photographic art retains its originality and uniqueness. We encourage the purchase of complete collections as reflected in pricing. We also create and license photographic art for commercial and editorial clients.
Artist’s Statement
I’m an artist. The camera is my medium. I’m a mad scientist using light to create emotion. Under the influence of Matisse and Kandinsky I use the camera to force you to see what I want you to see, to feel what I want you to feel, to engage your mind and trick your senses. I’m obsessed with photography.
My style is eclectic, I love being experimental, diving into concepts and letting them manifest in my photography. Honing techniques and understanding rules of design help me bend and manipulate the basics in order to establish my ideas. I study and engulf myself in concepts and themes deeply until they’re exposed in my camera. As an artist, I want my work to influence people to be better humans, by considering how we affect the natural world, how we treat the people we disagree with and our impact on the next chapter of history being written. Much of my artistry emanates from a quote, of which I don’t know who to attribute it to or even where I heard it, but the sentiment is so powerful it has stayed with me and shaped much of how I view the world.
“History tells us what happened; Art tells us how we felt about it”.
The camera is a masterful tool for the artist and the storyteller and I use it to tell the stories I need to express. Plagued with anxiety I’ve always found it difficult to find meaningful connections, it's difficult for me to share openly online as I’m always concerned about protecting my privacy. Antiquated it may be but I prefer a more cerebral experience when communicating. I’d rather discuss ideas than events and I’d rather speak of events than of people, whereas I find people are usually the reverse.
