MEET PHOTOGRAPHER, DAN DOWNING

I love photographs. I have since I was a child watching my Dad develop images in a makeshift darkroom in the kitchen. Photographs capture moments in time that will never occur again. Regardless of whether it’s a record of a family activity, as my Dad made, an image of the horrors of war such as those from the Nazi death camps, a beautiful landscape from Ansel Adams or Eliot Porter, the face of a migrant woman wondering how she will feed her children during the Great Depression, a total abstraction by Minor White, a Cindy Sherman fantasy, an image of a sliced cabbage, the beauty of a photograph is as, Edward Weston put it, “The thing itself.” Photographs can take your mind to places you have never been, either by their stark reality, at least the perception of their reality, or by forcing you to use your imagination to create your own reality.   I love photographs! READ MORE