Joesph Holmes
Personal Background
Joseph O. Holmes’s photographs have hung in solo and group shows around the world. "The Booth” was a featured solo exhibition in Toronto’s CONTACT photography festival. He was born in Berkeley, California but now Joe lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two children. By the time he was a teenager he had acquired a strong fascination for color landscape photography. Spending his summers in the mountains of California’s Sierra Nevada with the Berkeley High School Hiking Club, he began to capture the spectacular scenery on film. Inspired by a Sierra Club book of landscape photographs, he began to pursue photography as a career. Holmes graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Natural Resource Conservation, always maintaining a keen interest in photography. After college, he began building and designing his own darkroom and perfecting developing techniques.
Style
By the time he was a teenager he had acquired a strong fascination for color landscape photography. When he learned from a book that photography could be something much deeper than merely making pictures of things. He also learned that these pictures could inform people of the sacred places of the Earth and the importance of protecting the wholeness of nature’s creations from the rising tide of our own impacts upon them.
Philosophy
When he learned from a book that photography could be something much deeper than merely making pictures of things. He also learned that these pictures could inform people of the sacred places of the Earth and the importance of protecting the wholeness of nature’s creations from the rising tide of our own impacts upon them.
Influences
He was influenced by a Sierra Club book of landscape photography, I love landscape photographs because you can capture the beauty of it and all the things in it. This world isn’t always gonna be like this especially if we aren’t taking care of it.
Compare and Contrast
Personal Artist Statement
The images feel so quiet and peaceful because it’s the water and the trees. I could sit there for hours listening to my music while looking out at the water. It's calm and relaxing you could see a lot of animals.
Resources
Source 2 petapixel.com/2009/08/31/interview-with-joseph-holmes/ |
(Couldn't find a 3rd one) |