{"id":64129,"date":"2017-09-07T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=64129"},"modified":"2017-09-07T04:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:59:43","slug":"sean-lotman-painting-his-own-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/07\/sean-lotman-painting-his-own-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"SEAN LOTMAN: Painting His Own Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To announce SEAN LOTMAN as a featured HAPTIC artist<\/a>, here is an essay on why I love his work.<\/p>\n

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Painting your own reality<\/h2>\n

As artists, we all see the world in a different way. Our duty as an artist is to share our perspective and viewpoint with the world.<\/p>\n

I am against \u00e2\u20ac\u0153descriptive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photography<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d pictures that try to show what reality \u00e2\u20ac\u0153really looks like.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rather, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m more interested in showing a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153false\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reality, a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153surreal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reality\u00e2\u20ac\u201d or creating your own reality.<\/p>\n

Sean Lotman does this, by shooting all his pictures on expired slide color film, and then \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cross-processing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d his images. Then, he does all his color prints (by hand, in his own home color darkroom, and prints his own images). All the images you see from him are his scans, directly of his prints.<\/p>\n

Sean has inspired a lot of my color photography. How so? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like low contrast, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153realistic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d color pictures. To me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Normal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d color pictures are boring. I like high contrast and high saturation. I like having my eyes being tickled, by vibrant colors which I can taste… like biting into a juicy orange or tangerine.<\/p>\n

Anyways, Sean shows that as artists, we should NOT just be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153photographers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sean crops his pictures, flips them upside down, dodges and burns, and paints with his camera like a painter. He is not interested in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153traditional\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rule-based, dogmatic photography. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s making his own rules, and having fun with it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So ultimately Sean reminds me to have fun with photography, to keep my photography and art very subjective and very personal, and to morph and shape reality however I want to.<\/p>\n

Sean is a true artist \u00e2\u20ac\u201d stubborn to his creative vision, and one of a kind with his colorful painting pictures.<\/p>\n

KYOTO, 2017
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SUNLANDERS<\/h2>\n

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BLOWN ZEN MOMENTS<\/h2>\n

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PSYCHADELIC HUMANISM<\/h2>\n

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LEARN MORE ABOUT HAPTIC x SEAN LOTMAN ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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