PatChuprina

Once upon a time I was a commercial photographer, a burnt out commercial photographer. Everything had become a formula, my creativity was getting harder and harder to find. Everything had become mundane, I was hired to copy my previous work and style and I wasted my time in front of this laptop doing nothing. I was becoming angry. I put down my cameras, sold some of them and stopped photographing. It took a few years, but I eventually did pickup a camera and restore my passion/love of all things photography.

I am an artist and admittedly I see the world through different eyes than most people; I see the beauty in things that may be considered boring, decrepit, overlooked, rusting, deteriorating, or mundane. I enjoy photographing this subject matter which could be described as banal, boring and everyday. What seems at first to be a simplistic image is in fact quite complex and nothing in the frame can be taken for granted. My images are meant to be hung on a wall, to be viewed, used in photo stories or editorials, to be studied to be questioned to reveal their inner beauty.

My images are just not "pretty pictures" from a far off, exotic, expensive to get to location, these images are of something most of us pass daily and choose to ignore. It is my job, my passion to record these images.

Now I photograph the images I want, create series, sell prints, take commissions along with selected photo assignments. Gallery and Agent representation being actively sought. Let’s connect.

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