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It was four years ago when Smith’s twelve-year-old son created an Instagram account for him. Having established himself as a successful painter with artwork in Philadelphia’s Schmidt Dean Gallery, Smith’s re-adaption into the world of photography began with his iPhone. “I started shooting everything. When that range was limiting, I purchased a digital camera.” When asked how his creative communication through painting and photography interacts, Smith responded that, though the artistic mediums may differ, the ideas for both forms spring from “life experience”. In each work, whether painting or photograph, Smith seeks to “engage the viewer and tell a story without disclosing all the meaning.” “While my paintings elicit a particular mood rather than a place, my photography explores the interactions that we have with our environment. I seek to elicit a particular mood, 82 inspadesmag.com