Absinthe - My favorite drink. History in a bottle. My thirst for absinthe knowledge began with my artist-father's stories of hanging out with Hemingway in Havana's heyday. This journey led me through the misinformation cloud and into the enlightenment of truth, taking me to Pontalier, France and Val de Travers, Switzerland. As I learned from respected absintheurs, I was motivated by the impressive pictorial history of absinthe, and I began composing images.
With my 30 years of...
more »Absinthe - My favorite drink. History in a bottle. My thirst for absinthe knowledge began with my artist-father's stories of hanging out with Hemingway in Havana's heyday. This journey led me through the misinformation cloud and into the enlightenment of truth, taking me to Pontalier, France and Val de Travers, Switzerland. As I learned from respected absintheurs, I was motivated by the impressive pictorial history of absinthe, and I began composing images.
With my 30 years of professional experience, I pursued an excursion away from the client driven exactitude of advertising product photography. I wanted to explore a different visual result that satisfied my own visual sensibilities and my subject-absinthe. I sought a more artistic creation of a scene. The satisfaction of putting together a puzzle of a great photograph is what drives me. As always, I am dedicated to capturing an image through-the-lens as much as possible, without the aid of digital image manipulation. These absinthe related images have become a very satisfying pursuit, which has led to more branching out into food and drink photography. This exhibition is a distillation of my on-going body of work.
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