Tommy Keith

Before the sun

and

seeing in the dark

Project Statement

"These colour photographs are part of an ongoing series that feature various elements of the natural world. Using formal qualities such as colour, lighting, and camera perspective, I aim to transform otherwise ordinary occurrences into highly descriptive yet puzzling pictures, suggesting the world is far more mysterious than we think. My focus is in using these fundamental elements of photography to rediscover the seemingly mundane – algae in a park, a rainy night, common weeds – into something surprising and filled with wonder. I photograph during the early hours of the morning and late in the evening, times when there are fewer people outside and sight is limited. Using artificial light, I illuminate aspects of nature that are within highly populated cities and towns at a time when we have difficulty seeing, altering our perspective of the world around us. I think of this project as a balancing act between highly descriptive renderings of the world and pure abstraction, blurring the line between reality and the unknowable"

Artist Biography

Tommy Keith (b. 1993) is a photographer from Huntsville, Ontario. He received a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. He currently lives and works in Toronto, ON.