It has been said, by a sculptor, that all painters are frustrated they aren't sculptors, or at the least, that they want their work to be more sculptural.
With that being said, this photographer is a frustrated painter, or at the very least I want for my work to become more painterly.
Wanting my images to look more painterly is not the same as wanting to paint however, so photographing painters will for the moment have to somewhat satiate my curiosity.
At one point I also wanted to be an architect and perhaps it is that which leads me to find the work of Christopher Hoff so compelling.
His Plein-Air works capture a remarkable sense of time and place that is often lost in the techno-translation of photography. And I enjoy the negative spaces which are left void of detail, both because as a photographer it would be much simpler to edit out the elements that are distracting to the composition, as much as they remind me of my early attempts at orthographic and perspective drawings that seemingly floated on large sheets of drawing paper.
You can see Christopher's work at www.christopherhoff.com
