E-mail: samdobrow@gmail.com
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Biography
| Sam Dobrow has been involved in photography as an art for over thirty years. In high school, Sam was influenced by a photography teacher who instilled the purist principles of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. Sam developed advanced skills in visualizing the tonal range of a setting and capturing images with available light. In the darkroom Sam experimented with a variety of chemical and temperature techniques for both film and print processing. At the University of Florida, Sam's conservative and traditional perspective on photography as a visual medium was challenged by the thinking and works of Jerry Uelsmann, one of the early masters of photomontage, and guest lecturers like Robert Heineken (UCLA) whose montages embedded commercial erotica in highly unconventional images. Today, Sam creates a wide range of photographic images of Architecture, Landscapes, Nature, and People. He has developed a signature style of portraiture shot from unorthodox angles using a wide angle lens. These unique portraits over emphasize the facial features similar to a caricature or Picasso painting in an environmental setting that tells a story about the subject. One of Sam's favorite projects is to construct a photo essay where several outstanding portraits are sequenced in a series to convey a story about his subject. Projects of this nature are packaged and presented as a group of photographs. Sam is currently working on a book "Seven Stages of Desire" which is a compilation of documentary style erotic portrait stories. |
Contacts
| Sam is available for custom and commissioned assignments. |
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