Ron Kern

Having studied the art of photography for over twenty five years, I am a self taught photographic artist.

I aspire to discover and reveal the spiritual essence of my environment. For me, photography is a vital element of life; it is esoteric and abstract, yet temporal and existent.

When photographing I feel and sense the spirit of what I am seeing.  The “design” of the subject or scene becomes an integral part of the final composition.  I examine and present nature’s and/or man’s mark, the combination of which is often society’s response to my subject.  The resulting photograph shows the condition and existence of the subject within a context, literal or metaphorical.

I photograph within the environment in which I find myself.  I do not find it necessary to travel to a specific locale to make photographs that present something exotic, unfamiliar or detached from my day to day existence.  Rather I delve into my surroundings within the realm of where I live my life.

My main influences are Robert Frank, Aaron Siskind, David Michael Kennedy and Ed Ruscha.

Currently I am working on a project entitled 2 Photographers Works In Progress – http://2PhotogsWIP.blogspot.com