Joseph N. Walles

My mother is an artist and my father was in the newspaper business for 35 years. His hobby is photography. When I was 13, I learned how to use a camera and develop black and white film. Since then, I have spent a good deal of my time capturing selected fragments of the visible world through the view finder of a camera. The moment the photograph is made and the shutter closes, that particular moment is gone forever, except for the light that was chosen to “stain” the film. The photographs I make reflect my desire to record the unadulterated moment. What I choose to shoot, how I frame it and how I print the resulting image are the means of my expression. Shooting in black and white distills an image to its structure, which is expressive in itself. The challenge is to make a personal statement about my subject while showing only reality. Only when I have captured the moment and printed the image that I had visualized am I satisfied. When the print is shown and understood, that is a fortunate bonus.

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