Photographer's
Statement:
A
photograph can be considered a "slice of life".
It's one moment selected from the continuum, saved for
closer inspection. The choice of when to hit the "save
button" becomes a photographer's "point of view".
As I present my point of view, I'm most interested in
revealing the transient qualities of beauty and irony
found in everyday life and or everyday objects. My intent
is to create images that reveal their meaning in stages,
rewarding repeated viewing. If some images raise more
questions than answers, then they have truly become a
representation of life itself.
In all my photographic work, I find the interplay of space,
light and texture particularly important. Light makes
materials come to life, and space without light is of
no interest from the photographic point of view. Texture
and surface characteristics - the essence of materials
- form an ethereal link with reality in my pictures. It
is this, which puts them on the borderline between documentation
and pure emotion.
Statement
regarding Bischoff's photography in the music industry:
Process
Statement:
All of my negatives and prints are hand-processed in my
studio. I use many different camera formats to best express
my ideas. My portfolio includes photographs made from
35mm, 6x7 roll film as well as a 4 x 5 field camera. My
panoramic images are captured on a Fuji 617 medium format
camera.
The majority of my work is done in Black & White.
To me black & white is the purist of photographic
images. I use T-Max films almost exclusively. I also
use Kodak’s Infrared black & white film,
in both 35mm and 4x5, for the unique “surreal
dreamlike”
look of infrared.
Digital imaging has also become part of my work. All digital
images are photographed on a Canon D-60 camera and printed
with archival inks and papers on a 7 ink Epson 2200 printer.
