ronkernphoto@gmail.com
Website: http://ronkernphotographer.com
317-507-7888
12716 Wemby Road, Carmel, IN, 46033
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