I have always been drawn to sacred and vernacular architecture with an emphasis on natural illumination, envisioning photography as the study of luminance.
Blaine Ellis has always been drawn to sacred and vernacular architecture with an emphasis on natural illumination, envisioning photography as the study of luminance. Light has been a symbol of the transcendent, a metaphor for the unknowable. Sacred space becomes a visual theology, a sculpture in light, which he then reinterpret through the medium of photography.
Silver images become a meditation, an expression of our personal attempt at self-definition through visual imagery.