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Stanley Shoemaker

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Special Issue

question our relationship with the
planet we inhabit.
The language you convey in your
works is the result of a constant
evolution of your searching for new
means to express the ideas you explore
in your works: your inquiry into the
expressive potential of photography
combines together figurative as subtle
abstract feature into a coherent
balance. We we would suggest to our
readers to visit
http://www.stanleyshoemaker.com in
order to get a synoptic view of your
work: in the meanwhile, would you like
to tell to our readers something about
your process and set up? In particular,
would you tell our readers something
about the evolution of your style?

When I was studying photography I was
influenced by my teachers telling me
that the medium was not a way to
describe reality, that this reality comes
from the photographer, Ansel Adams
once said: “Photography is more than a
medium for factual communication of
ideas. It is creative art” and this quote
really got me…I began making
conceptual photographs in bw mainly
because it was easier to combine a bw
photograph, but I was not satisfied with
the first results, I mean, Im not against
black and white photographs, what Im
trying to say is that they lacked that
certain emphasis, I don’t know what
was it but I was not satisfied with the
results so I began making color
photographs, so, I started creating
images that had a subliminal
statement, always wanting the viewer
to create his or her own personal

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