The
work we do comes from a specific point of view, a philosophy if
you will, of the relationship of the artist to the world. We believe
that, like cinema, black and white photography is a language.
A language that is perfectly suited to the interpretation of architectural
subjects, and a language that grows in nuance and strength through
the work of skilled practitioners. We approach a subject from
a subjective stance of interpretation that will reveal the strength
and beauty of architecture.
Writing
about photographs the curator, writer and photographer John Szarkowski
stated, "In historical practice it has proved more difficult to
improve good photographs by drawing or painting on them, or by
cutting them into pieces and rearranging the parts, although one
can by these methods make interesting pictures out of boring ones.
Photographs are made not essentially by hand but by eye, with
a machine that records with unforgiving candor the quality of
mind informed by that eye. Second thoughts that veil candor do
not often make the picture better."
Szarkowski's
statement expresses our belief that vision is the most important
thing a photographer brings to a subject. Photography is the art
of sight. And with that in mind we strive to make the link between
reality and image seamless, a marriage of vision and craft that
results in eloquent images of beautiful places.
