Comforts of Home

• Prize
• Photographer
  Allen Bryan, United States
• Date of Photograph
  online
• Studio
  Allen Bryan Photography
• Website
  www.allenbryan.com

These pictures are part of my Comforts of Home series. The disquieting panoramas examine the living spaces of occupants who may return at any moment. They are unsettling spaces ? not meant for habitation. A sense of uncontrolled change and flux is present. Planes and perspective are somewhat distorted as in a dream. There is a precarious balance between inside and outside space intruding on each other. As with a stage set or movie, there is impending activity. Time becomes an active element in this series as the viewer wanders around uncovering a history.

The places do not wholly exist as presented. They are digitally assembled from over thirty years of my slide and digital images. The varied sources, lenses and mixed lighting contribute to the feeling that something isn?t as real as we first thought.

Allen Bryan is a photographer specializing in ?tabletop? products such as jewelry, pottery, glassware, home and clothing accessories for advertising, catalogs and portfolios. His work has appeared in magazines, books and newspapers as well as hundreds of catalogs, postcards and ads. Since 1995, he has been exhibiting and selling fine art prints of his personal body of work involving the landscape and the influence of people upon it.

Awards Silver Award PX3-2009
Pictures from the Comforts of Home series have been exhibited at:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; JFK Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Delaware Art Museum; Art Museum at SUNY Albany NY; Houston Center for Photography; Blue Sky Gallery/Oregon Ctr. for Photographic Arts, Portland OR; Hyde Collection, Glens Falls NY; The Light Factory, Charlotte NC; Photo Resource Center, Boston; Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock NY; Albany Institute of History & Art; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz NY; Gallery 1401, Philadelphia; The Print Center, Philadelphia; Muroff/Kotler Gallery, Stone Ridge NY; Albany International Airport; Soho Photo, NY,NY; Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock, NY.