These are entirely composited, fictitious people. Each image includes
30 to 50 exposures of different models including different ethnicity,
gender, body types, fashion, backgrounds, and lighting. These images
explore future identity as we migrate: where is serendipity? What is
my new identity, new aesthetic, and how is it affected by the built
environment?
My high multiple composites are completely realistic yet fictitious,
hundreds of colours and textures from the built environment invert
fore-mid-background multiple times creating a contradiction: just
where is the person within the picture plane? This mimics a real
migratory person and subsequent generations of children: just who
are you?
After a long Industrial Design career (www.pierdesign.ca) I changed focus to fine art photography specializing in high multiple exposure composites. Originally analogue, in camera on film, now digital compositing, creating fictitious people in chaotic built environments. Working in Toronto Canada, and have traveled and shot in Europe and Africa.
Awards 2017 4 exhibits booked, 2 group and 2 solo. 2016 exhibition "Rushton Walls" Toronto; EDAA digital art competition semifinalist. 2015 Ramp Gallery Montréal best in show; published photobook "Elegy". 2013-2014 published High Multiples photobooks.
