Isolation. Traditional Black and White Photography by Phillip Carver

I want to share with you all a fine artist photographer who I know and respect. I may feature some of my favorites from his portfolio on occasion. His works are among those I've collected, and I prize them due to the quality of his artistic process; from conception through production. They are profound, to say the least, to understand and view in person.

It is important to understand that the images are all taken from original analogue captures, inverted in a traditional black room, and never cropped. Phillip bides his time with the patience of a sniper, waiting days sometimes, for that precise composition of light and shadow to come to play. It is as much a meditation for him as it is a dedicated, active practice. Please go follow him:

His page is Interpreting Light by Phillip Carver

Below is an image called "Isolation" from his portfolio #2.

This one I don't have in my collection, but I've always love the way it contains that essence from historical surrealisms; the haunting creep of shadow emerging from a point out of frame. Very much original contemporary work, while knowingly giving a nod to the great Giorgio Chirico. In this case, though, the concept of isolation is enhanced by the immaterial presence of the "other". The silvery quality of the sky and the pine also could easily suggest a scene on an alien world. It really let's the viewer experience it from the frame of Tantalus on the one hand, and the paranoid condition of loneliness by a aversion, on the other. The detail is immaculate, and I'm sad that I can't present it in the 24" x 36" size, but hopefully this gives a taste.