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Artist David Mccrae

Seattle, Wa

Romanesco Broccoli From Frank’s Quality Produce
Fine Art Photography

Artist Statement
I started learning the process of photography from my grandparents in Colorado, both dedicated amateur photographers and naturalists. Process was left behind for theory while studying art history at the University of California, San Diego, although chemistry and the beach kept interfering.

With the arrival of the digital darkroom at our Berkeley home in 2000, I began working under the tutelage of Jules Spilman, a painter and sculptor trained at the Chicago Art Institute. He offered me my first show in 2004 at his Gallery and Salon, and so a new phase began.

The history of photography is replete with examples of image capture without a camera. My present focus, ‘From a Scanner, Darkly,’ began when I had no time to work with film. Instead, a scanner and a computer became my substitute for photosensitive materials and a darkroom. The subject matter came from the pantry and the garden. Food and flowers; simple subjects but not mundane, for they feed the body and the mind.

I now use both analog and digital image capture, with and without camera and lens. Images are printed digitally with pigment inks on archival paper.