Leon West

www.LeonWest.co.uk

My photographs illuminate an intimate experience with the subject.  Each photograph I take is depicted in clear, intricate detail, with forms, lines and patterns precisely arranged within the composition.  A consistent regard for clarity, tonal quality and the infinite nuance of detail pervades my work. This gives me the freedom to achieve the images I desire.  I create photographs where the light appears invisible — so as to neutralize its role in the appearance of things.  I choose to work in the intriguing beauty of shaded light as sunshine creates shadows, highlights, and accents on the surface that commandeer the eye.  Revering detail, tonality and clarity I decided to use a cumbersome 8″x10″ Deardorff field camera, a precision instrument that is based on early 19th-century designs.  The large camera with its formality is a device that grants my subject matter dignity.

— Leon West, Cardiff, Wales, UK