Artist Statement
As a photographer I have, over the years, explored the endless possibilities of traditional photographic techniques, both in-camera and in the darkroom, mastering the methods and learning the rules... even if only to break them. If anything, I've embraced the wonderful potential in "incorrect" technique. The unpredictable effects of homemade lenses, cheap film, graininess, diffusion, softness, misaligned planes of focus, vignetting, aberrations and light leaks have become my palette for photographic expression.
Although these days my camera is digital and my darkroom is a computer, I still think in terms of these same traditional methods and techniques. But given the powerful capabilities of the digital platform, I have expanded upon the processes, exploring new ways of working with and manipulating pixel data.
In the Paris: Dialogue series, the world is rendered in dreamlike atmospheres, with sparse landscapes and empty cities visited only occasionally by ghosts and shadowy figures. More interested in capturing feeling than in capturing detail, I strive to find the beauty in the mundane, the extraordinary in the ordinary: that radiance revealed not in how things look, but rather in how you look at things.
Jonas Yip is an award-winning photographer and musician based in the Los Angeles area. His fine art photographic work has been exhibited internationally and has been published in a monograph, Paris: Dialogues and Meditations (Nanjing University Press, 2008), in collaboration with renowned poet and scholar Wai-lim Yip. An exhibition, “Paris: Dialogue”, featuring photographs and poems excerpted from the book, has been traveling through Taiwan, China and Hong Kong and has also been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art and most recently at the University of California, San Diego. The photographs and poems from the series have been accepted into the permanent collections at the San Diego Museum of Art in San Diego, CA and the National Museum of Chinese Literature in Beijing, China.
Please visit www.jonasyip.com for more information and news.
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