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Website: www.lechevalthehorse.com

Although I have always had some kind of a camera in my hand, I was given my first 35mm camera for my college graduation. From that point on I saw myself in the images I caught in the viewfinder. I was living in New York City in the late 1980’s and I spent a great deal of time photographing the buildings I found around me. The textures, light, geometry of the city absorbed me. I photographed the peeling paint, the shadows of fire escapes, the edges and corners. I worked in 35mm, color and black & white. I found I was greatly influenced by the works of modernist photographers, painters and sculptors.

 

I returned to school in 1989 and received a Master’s Degree in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. It is there that I honed my skills and learned to speak with my camera. And it is also there that I started a fledgling interest in photographing horses. Some years later, I have purposefully combined my love of horses with my need to communicate through my artwork.

 

In an age of the digital camera and digital print, I still work in 35mm. I still use mainly B&W. And I still do my own hand-printing in my basement darkroom. And when looking at the body of work that I am producing, I still see that I am working with textures, light and geometry. But now I am working with horses. Living testimonials to nature’s architecture. I am a Fine Artist, working in the medium of photography and with horses as my primary subject matter. Most of my work is self-generated, although I enjoy the opportunity to do commissions as well. My work has been shown at various juried exhibitions throughout the United States, as well as being published in Equine Art publications, and can be found in private and museum collections Internationally.