Chip Forelli

Chip Forelli's photographic objective is to acknowledge and celebrate the existence of beauty - he often finds it in unexpected or overlooked places and circumstances. He refers to these encounters as "Visual Gifts" and in turn offers them to us in the form of a fine photographic print for our own reflection. Like a Zen garden, composed of a few uncluttered objects, each of Forelli's images invite the viewer to imagine himself in the landscape. "My goal is to suggest an emotional response to the viewer and leave enough room for interpretation. I like the images to provoke a second look with some questions not immediately answered." The essence of his approach is a delicate balance of aesthetic and technical controls, this being the foundation of the workshops he conducts. For him, color can often be a distraction. "The use of black and white heightens the graphic content and takes the experience to another level, where the image rendered purely in terms of form and tone is more of an abstraction with added dimension and depth".

Chip Forelli Images:
Clear To The Horizon
Grasses In The Sky
Running River
Sand Daisies