Windows 4. 2017
My current portfolio seeks to spotlight overlooked urban buildings, to showcase details of these edifices. I hope to show dynamic movement and a sense of shifting light in the sights and scenes of my world, dramatically expressed through sharp architectural forms, contrasting dark and light, as I offer each locale a life of its own. Offering a close, almost confrontational view, my work endeavors to vividly envelope the senses, inviting the viewer to re-think the images of the world as my sense sees it, encouraging the viewer to enter this environment and experience my world for themselves.
Windows 7. 2017
My current portfolio seeks to spotlight overlooked urban buildings, to showcase details of these edifices. I hope to show dynamic movement and a sense of shifting light in the sights and scenes of my world, dramatically expressed through sharp architectural forms, contrasting dark and light, as I offer each locale a life of its own. Offering a close, almost confrontational view, my work endeavors to vividly envelope the senses, inviting the viewer to re-think the images of the world as my sense sees it, encouraging the viewer to enter this environment and experience my world for themselves.
Awning. 2017
My current portfolio seeks to spotlight overlooked urban buildings, to showcase details of these edifices. I hope to show dynamic movement and a sense of shifting light in the sights and scenes of my world, dramatically expressed through sharp architectural forms, contrasting dark and light, as I offer each locale a life of its own. Offering a close, almost confrontational view, my work endeavors to vividly envelope the senses, inviting the viewer to re-think the images of the world as my sense sees it, encouraging the viewer to enter this environment and experience my world for themselves.
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United States
Joseph O’Neill was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1965. He has no formal education in art, but did study to become a chef. In the process of becoming a chef, he was forced to develop the habit of trying, tasting, and experiencing things in a different way. He has been an active photographer throughout the last decade, but only began exhibiting in 2012. Because he is self taught, he is never afraid to try different techniques. His photography has been influenced first by the works of Eugene Atget, and later by Man-Ray. His earlier work in photography was an unplanned documenting of things that are taken for granted as he passed them. Since deliberately moving toward photography as fine art, he has been experimenting more with architectural abstracts and nude studies. His work has appear