Joseph Podlesnik, Seer Unseen, 2019, 1 of 1, Archival Pigment Print, 11" x 15" inches, $500

Joseph Podlesnik is trained mainly in drawing and painting and it is this experience which seems to influence his approach to photography. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona and exhibits his work nationally and internationally, and is facilitator for the Digital Photography Cornell Certificate Program. He received his MFA in drawing & painting from Cornell University.  

“For me, the camera lens depicts perspective too easily, which is why I capture and develop photographs which often frustrate readable perspectival space, through glass and light reflections and refractions, bringing the viewer’s eye stubbornly back to the surface of the image, so the mind is not allowed to linger in readable/ navigable space too long. For me, the photographic image is not only a window through which to see the visible world, but also a maker of flat surfaces, shapes which stunt or block logical space. I see photography and pictures not only as documentation, but as commenting on or reenacting visual perception itself.” - Joseph Podlesnik