1 – Michael Berman
Michael Berman: Transatlantic Passage 2
Michael Berman Photography
360.732.0693
mjberman55@embarqmail.com
www.MichaelBermanPhotography.com
Photography
Demonstration:
There is a bewildering number of photographic papers available today. I’ll print an image on a variety of papers to demonstrate how paper and media choice can be used to control the quality, tone and mood of a photograph.
Directions:
From Port Townsend take Route 20 south to Route 19. Continue south on 19 through Chimacum and past Egg and I Road. Turn right onto Larson Lake Road – studio is .3 miles on the left. If you are visiting the studios off Center or West Valley Roads, take Center Road south to Larson Lake Road and turn left.
Artist statement:
During the studio tour, I’m exhibiting black and white images of schooners, sailing ships and nautical details and a new series of large scale color panoramic images called TRANSATLANTIC PASSAGE: An exploration of time, location and the sea. The Transatlantic Passage photographs were made during the 2007 transatlantic cruisers rally from the Canary Islands – off the coast of West Africa – to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. These images express my fascination with the ephemeral nature of the sea and explore the concepts of time, place and change. A panoramic film camera was used for this project to capture the wide expanse of the sea and place the viewer within the rising and falling waves. The open ocean lacks the geographic reference points that are used to define place and location on land – without a chart and navigational tools, location is indeterminable. At sea, all visual references, the horizon, ocean and sky, are constantly changing, moment to moment, day to day. Each moment, each image, is distinct and cannot be revisited. This concept of moment to moment change was first expressed by the 6th century B.C. Greek philosopher Hereclitus who wrote “one can never step in the same stream twice.” The photographs in this body of work are titled with latitude and longitude to further explore the concept of place. These images were made in known locations, however, except for their latitudes and longitudes, there is nothing within these photographs attaching them to specific locations.