Michel Demanche
(American, b. 1954)
Over 30 years ago, I began to work with the medium of photography as my main means of expression. I had studied painting and found that just working with the limitations of pigment did not satisfy my need to tell stories. Through my investigations in printing and photography a world of mystery and chemical transformation was opened and ever since that time, I transform narrative into light and light into metal. Most recently, (over the past 8 years) I have photographed the effects of my rapidly changing environment on the indigenous creatures. I have seen a basically rural area change to suburban very quickly and the road system is my grid to document the changes that create the unnatural habitat. In...
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