Biography: These photographs are part of my "Rockaway Beach" and "Floral Impressions"
series.
"Rockaway Beach" is an ongoing series of seascapes that began in 1998. My unmanipulated photographs are all taken from a singular vantage point
overlooking the ocean in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York. My intention is to reveal the serene and unexpected beauty that exists within tumultuous New York City. The shoreline provides an inexhaustible supply of infinitely
variable forms where the sea and sky combine to create myriad abstract visual elements.
"Floral Impressions" consists of 20 images taken during the summer of 2001. All the images again were taken from a singular location. A neighbor's garden filled with a resplendent array of spring and summer flowers proved
irresistible. The flowers were permitted to move freely with the wind - catching the early morning light - in and out of focus as the breeze dictated.
My pictures are a thin slice of space and time exlored through scale, color and simplicity of image, translating the world into a purely pictorial language of color, shape and overall composition.
The photographers point of view can sharpen and even alter the perception of an image that is fleeting and transitory. Starting from what is complex, it is possible to reach what is simple and timeless.
With a sensibility to the specificity of light, the camera can push the limits of the tension between real and abstract to create a balance of sculptural form and natural sensuality.
Sandra Gottlieb
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