John H Diephouse

What I seek to share are images with which I have a strong and instinctive personal connection. My goal is to create images that evoke a story of some kind that often moves far beyond the relatively literal boundaries of traditional photography. Images may be simply documentary, invoke a sense of time and place, or resonate as an abstract blend of color, shape, or form. Others provoke an indefinable question that does not readily yield answers without further study and reflection.

I draw from a wide range of photographic subjects such as landscapes, botanicals, and wildlife as well as urban environments and people, but am most often drawn back to images created while wandering through the upper Midwest. I follow an intuitive yet somewhat ordered process of layering or merging portions of photos until an image that speaks to me emerges. Most often this is more likely a random bit of serendipity than deliberate intent. Images often suggest a sense of time and place or reflect a rich and ethereal interplay of color, shape, or form. Images may provoke an indefinable question that does not readily yield answers without further study and reflection. Ultimately, my images provide a vehicle to stimulate both my imagination and that of the viewer, leaving one free to interpret and create an individual sense of meaning and value.