Tag: Dennis Church

Photographer Dennis Church looks at the world differently and his photographs reveal a layered seeing that reflect the kaleidoscopic assault on our senses in contemporary times. Disorienting at first, he is a visual deconstructionist, using color and altered perspectives that flatten space in order to examine the visual chaos that surrounds our every day lives. Work from his Americolor series will appear in the new 2017 edition of Bystander, A History of Street Photography, authored by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz, and published Laurence King Publishing 2017. Author Joel Meyerowitz states: “….and Dennis Church, working in New York City, as well as more suburban areas, seems to be looking at the way overlapping planes of street furnishings create spatial confusion and a kind of “visual noise” that jams things together in playful tribute to the proliferation of signage and movement happening down at the street level. And oddly, some of them remind me of the way Saul Letter, way back in the late fifties, used a vantage point near shop windows and corners to describe the city’s chaos as it appeared back then.”

Dennis Church has a unique way of seeing.  His views the world with a technicolor sensibility, but also takes visual chaos and layered planes of perception and flattens them. The results make for a two dimensional sensation. After going through his images a number of times, I always find something new and something more to explore. The image below is a perfect representation of his appreciation for color.  This image is about RGB colors–plus his fine tuned ability to see color and put it into context.