ABOUT
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| Chris Honeysett has been making photographs since 1968, when he was 3 years old. What began as a curiosity with a plastic box camera has turned in to a career and primary passion in life. *** "I feel excited to be alive when I'm making an image. It's as if life is at a crescendo at that very moment, and I am priviliged to share in it. After making an image, I bow to the subject in thanks." "In the 1970s I saw an Ansel Adams exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. I remember standing right up against the framed prints, wondering how he had made them. The elusive spirit within all great art is that which makes an image potent to both the photographer and the viewer. Seeing it in Ansel Adams' prints all those years ago left a desire to improve my own photography" "My first serious camera was a Nikon FM, with a few lenses. I made color images of just about everything, and got my chops on that camera. In 1987 I began using a 4x5" view camera and black and white film exclusively. All of my prints were made in my modest wet darkrom for over 25 years. In 2009 I embraced an all-digital workflow, and now use the Canon 1DS Mark II and HP DesignJet Z3100 44" printer." Portrait by Lisa Kristine © 2011 |