Everywhere and All at Once by Kevin Hoth

Issue 105

 

Ansel Adams said–somewhat cheekily–the hardest part of photography is knowing where to stand. This is essentially an acknowledgement of the importance of the camera’s coordinates in space or the vantage point of the maker. I use a mirror within the landscape as a way to combine two vantage points - in front and behind me - in one frame. Representation of photographic seeing tends to be from one vantage point or coordinate in space – you extend a ray from your eye to the scene. I’ve often felt this is a representational limitation since what we may experience as seeing is a three-dimensional, multi-sensorial experience. By creating images that combine multiple scenes–albeit from the same vantage point–my aim is to create a two-dimensional image that evokes a more whole representation of seeing. The series locked into place when I realized I could line up horizon lines from these multiple spaces or line up objects--clouds and rocky peaks, for instance--to unify different spaces within the singular frame. Though the idea of landscape may carry with it certain metaphors, I use the landscape as a sort of blank canvas or background layer (to use the language of photoshop) devoid of social cues or commercial symbols. I use a circular mirror as a reference to the shape of the eyeball and to the fact that all images -- whether formed in the brain or projected on the capture plane -- are created optically as true circles.

Kevin Hoth lives and works in Boulder, Colorado. 
To view more of Kevin's work, please visit his website.

Peak

Peak

 
Cloud and Rock

Cloud and Rock

 
Hole

Hole

 
 
Saguaro 1

Saguaro 1

 
 
 
Saguaro 2

Saguaro 2

 
 
 
Saguaro 3

Saguaro 3

 
 
Looking Glass

Looking Glass

 
Palms Portal

Palms Portal

 
Three from One Thousand

Three from One Thousand

 
Division

Division

 
Portal Shift

Portal Shift

 
Portal

Portal