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Throughout my life, I have surrounded myself with art. When I was younger, I would draw or paint for hours at a time. Some time shortly before my teenage years, I picked up a camera, and began channeling my energies through that medium. I experimented. I took classes. I spent hours in the darkroom. I even wrote a short film or two.
Sometime after this, I lapsed for a few years. My cameras sat in a closet, along with the rest of my paint, pencils and other tools. I went off to work in the grown-up world, forgetting these things, a fate that has struck many along the way, I’m sure. Bills. Taxes. The proverbial white picket fence.
Late in 2005, I began a process of reinvention. I spent a great deal of time alone, isolated from my family, friends, and sometimes, the world in general, and began looking deeper within myself, attempting to unlock those things that had been buried for many years. I painted. I wrote. I found a muse or two along the way. And I began shooting again on a daily basis.
In the fall of 2006, I opened a new studio, and dove into my work again with a new sense of direction.
Though the camera is the primary catalyst for my work, I strive to produce images that go beyond merely capturing a split-second in time, and attempt to create work that is deeper, deliberate, and more emotive. I do not want to be confined by allowing the camera to have the final say on an image, but rather, desire to use everything that I know about photography and art as a color in the palette of the final piece of work.
This site is largely comprised of works created since finding this new vision.
Geoffrey Vail Brown
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