Daniel Mirer
I like photography that doesn’t have the pretension to exaggerate the visual language of the image. Images that are not too complex, not too simple, just the right blend of subjects, light and composition to create pictures with interest, photographs that are a great pleasure to look at. This is what caught my attention when I discovered the work of Daniel Mirer, a photographer located in New York City.
His work is fresh, with presence, and feels just right. Perhaps it is because he masters one of the skills that I appreciate most, the ability to enhance the message -and impact- by simplifying the image. At large, in Daniel’s work, this is achieved by great but unassuming compositions. His work covers diverse topics like portraits, location photography and the visual study of spaces, all defining a very cohesive body of work.
His most recent series called “ArchitorSpace” will be exhibited at the beautiful Light & Sie gallery in Dallas [Texas, USA], from September 18th to November 1st of 2008.
from ArchitorSpace, © Daniel Mirer
“The ArchitorSpace photographs display my specific interest in and fear of the banality of spaces in enclosed areas within post-industrial architecture. These places are typologies of contemporary post-industrial architectural aesthetic that makes the individual appear so displaced within the uncanny. The photographic strategy is to purposefully make these images heavy with absence; forgotten places that are entirely familiar. These deserted (non-site) environments reveal no history or functionality.”- Daniel Mirer
