Artist Statement
I am a photographer and a writer because I am deeply concerned about humanity and nature and I am attracted to contradictory realities in a world that is increasingly transformed, reduced, and abstracted. The resilience of human culture is being tested on a global scale by its own successes and failures. I see nature and humanity simultaneously in conflict and inextricably intertwined. My work deals with the tensions this creates.
Since the 1990’s I have used the paradoxical term Urban Wilderness to symbolize the complexity of my experiences as well as my creative responses to these tensions and themes. This term, which is rich with hope as well as contradiction, has provided the conceptual underpinning for the various bodies of work I have undertaken in the past 20 years. These bodies of work include the Urban Wilderness Project, the Icon Series, Accidental Art: Construction Fences in the Landscape, the Reverie Series, and Synecdoche: the fragment that represents the whole.
Eddee Daniel is a fine art photographer and writer specializing in urban landscapes. His practice examines how we perceive and construct understandings of nature in the contexts of culture and the built environment. His work is characterized by the paradoxical term Urban Wilderness, which symbolizes the complexity of his oeuvre as well as the tensions inherent in the concept.
Eddee Daniel is the author of Urban Wilderness: Exploring a Metropolitan Watershed, published by the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago and recipient of the Conservation Fund’s Kodak American Greenways Award. His work has been published in Family: a Celebration of Humanity, Popular Photography, The Photo Review, Phototechniques, Art in Wisconsin, New Mexico Photographer, and Orion Magazine, among others.
With degrees from University of Wisconsin—Madison and University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, he brings to his current full time practice over 30 years of experience working with environmental non-profit organizations as well as teaching photography and architecture.
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