ABOUT:

Anthony is a high school photography, graphic design, and illustration teacher as well as a member of Edge Contemporary Art Gallery.  He graduated from the University of Colorado Denver with a BFA and got education licensure at Metropolitan State University of Denver.  When he is not teaching, you may find Anthony operating a 100-year-old camera, making alternative process photographic prints, or conducting digital wizardry in Photoshop.  His work blends the historical with the contemporary (both in concept and process).

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ARTIST STATEMENT

My work consists of photographs of surreal and sometimes paradoxical scenes meant to challenge the viewer's perception and certainty of reality.  The work forces a confrontation between photography's legacy as a document of truth and the contemporary state of digital manipulation and fictitious imagery.

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My artistic practice is centered in the history of chemical photography, specifically the wet plate collodion process. Upon photography’s inception, people saw the medium as capable of producing a direct imprint of reality. The wet plate collodion process is rich with distortions, bubbles, and streaks — all artifacts that mark authenticity and serve as evidence of a process rooted in chemistry and physics.

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In creating my work, I build impossible or fantastical scenes using techniques including miniature construction and digital compositing. The resulting work is then photographed using the wet plate collodion process, a crucial final step that introduces the chemical artifacts, texture, and physical markers of an authentic, truthful photograph. Scans are taken of the final photographs to create large-scale prints for a gallery setting.