About me …
I am passionate about photography; not just the finished photograph, but also the process of visualizing and capturing each illusive image, processing the image, and then creating the print. For me, the photographic process is not complete until the viewer is moved or intrigued by what they see, regardless of whether their reaction is exactly the same as what motivated me to press the shutter release.
While I use the most modern digital photographic equipment, my style and technique are traditional, and I use minimal digital manipulation. In the digital "darkroom" I often spend considerable time "processing" and printing an image that may have taken just 1/30th of a second to "capture." Through my photographs, I am showing the viewer what I saw, but often more importantly, also what I felt.
Photography enables me to communicate the incredible world around us, as I experience it. The writer uses words; the musician uses musical notes. My goal is to present images that stimulate more than our sense of sight, but hopefully, also evokes our emotion and imagination.
My greatest influences have been those with whom I have studied, including well-known British landscape photographer Charlie Waite, former National Geographic photographer Bruce Dale, digital expert Thom Hogan, and fine art Photoshop masters Eliot Cohen, Charlie Cramer, and John Paul Caponigro.
My photographs are in numerous personal and corporate collections, as well as in the private collection of the Embassy of Chile, in Washington, D.C. My photographs can be seen at Multiple Exposures Gallery, located in the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia, 703-683-2205, and at my studio/gallery in Bethesda, Maryland, 301-365-5177.
Alan Sislen