The Artist

 

I see my role as an artist as a storyteller: telling viewers about the power, the wonder, and the beauty of the natural world.  I believe in the transformative power of nature that Henry David Thoreau described in Walking, “[I]n Wildness is the preservation of the world. Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind...Why do the vast snow plains give us pleasure, the twilight of the bent and half-buried woods?...[The Wild] is there with its beauty, its music, its perfume, its sweetness, to exhilarate and recreate us...”


My goal is to use my images to give others an escape into the Wild.  My work aims to capture both the literal truth of the natural world and the emotional impact of that world.  Photography has the astounding ability to bring the Wild into our lives when we cannot otherwise travel to or connect with the freedom of nature, and I strive to add that dimension to my viewers’ lives.


My tools are the light in the Wild where I am shooting and the electronic gadgets that capture and process what I see there. 


The other part of my art is teaching: helping others realize their visions in the field and at the computer through camera and software education.


You can learn more about me and my art at my Web site.


— Chris Sandberg