Joe Biber Photography

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Joe Biber

Photography is my way of expressing how I perceive world I live in. My

photographs are usually compositions of a part of a whole but through the framing

of my lens I seek to create a new whole that tells a story. This is my way of having

a conversation without words -- the photo needs to communicate a feeling or a

story. I envision my film, whether it be true film or a digital sensor, as a canvas

that I paint with light. I look photographs as something made, not simply taken. I

start with a completely black “canvas”. Then I add information to it with controlled

and intentional light. Photographs freeze a moment in time and make that moment

iconic; a fraction of a second in millions that instantly becomes heroic, almost

monumental. I like to photograph scenes that speak to me on some narrative

level…pictures that tell a bit of a story. It can be an abstract notion like "flying"…

illustrating a girl's hair, or a bird's wings, each suggesting freedom or possibility.

Or it can simply be an image that conveys an idea without showing the whole

thing; a line along the top of a female body, or a world within the colored iris of an

eye. It is important for me to present the world I observe in a way that's uniquely

mine, and to get the viewer to see what I see, to feel what I want them to feel.22