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BIO
At the age of twelve, Wes came across his father’s prints and photographic equipment in the attic. This began his lifelong devotion and dedication to the medium, and to the continuing progression of image-making.
After receiving a degree in commercial photography from a small school in North Carolina, he worked in portraiture for eight years. He then began a long collaboration with advertising photographer Jim Erickson, during which he moved from the darkroom to digital imaging and has become a master at digital composition, manipulation and retouching. He helped found, and is currently senior digital artist for, FatCat Digital in northern California.
Throughout his professional career, he has created a richly varied body of personal work ranging from portraiture to surreal imagery. His subject matter ranges from the human figure to a perspective of landscape individual to him. Experimentation and finding new ways to see is paramount to his work.
Since 1996, Wes felt digitally adept enough to move to the computer with his personal work. He presently finishes all his images, personal and professional, with the computer. The resulting images have an haunting clarity that transports the viewer to other-worldly landscapes of light and shadow. Looking into the eyes of his portrait subjects, the viewer is captivated by the immediacy and intensity of their gaze- the watcher, watched. Whether saturated with rich color, or bathed in subtle painterly washes, the resulting images can be spiritually elevating or darkly mysterious- but always compelling. With equal respect for minute details and grand vistas, Wes challenges the viewers’ very sense of scale.
For the past ten years, his interest in landscape, landforms (and the more recent additions of his visual interpretation of various cultures of humanity) has transformed his work greatly. After photographing the unearthly terrain of the American West, extensive travel in China began what promises to be a life-long quest to search for and capture images unseen by the casual glance. Having recently returned from travels through Cambodia, India and Egypt, Wes looks forward to many photographic journeys in the future and sharing his Vision Obscured.
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