Joe Biber Photography
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Joe Biber Photography is my way of expressing how I perceive world I live in. My photographs are usually compositions of a part of a whole but through the framing of my lens I seek to create a new whole that tells a story. This is my way of having a conversation without words -- the photo needs to communicate a feeling or a story. I envision my film, whether it be true film or a digital sensor, as a canvas that I paint with light. I look photographs as something made, not simply taken. I start with a completely black “canvas”. Then I add information to it with controlled and intentional light. Photographs freeze a moment in time and make that moment iconic; a fraction of a second in millions that instantly becomes heroic, almost monumental. I like to photograph scenes that speak to me on some narrative level…pictures that tell a bit of a story. It can be an abstract notion like "flying"… illustrating a girl's hair, or a bird's wings, each suggesting freedom or possibility. Or it can simply be an image that conveys an idea without showing the whole thing; a line along the top of a female body, or a world within the colored iris of an eye. It is important for me to present the world I observe in a way that's uniquely mine, and to get the viewer to see what I see, to feel what I want them to feel. 22