Jim Krantz
With his engrossing style Jim Krantz is calling the attention of the entire creative industry. Just recently the IPA named Krantz its 2010 Advertising Photographer of the Year for his series "The Way of the West". And with October 28th also won the final competition at the IPA and was decorated with the IPA's top award of International Photographer of the Year 2010 which means he was singled out among 20,000 entrants from 103 nations.
Jim is a versatile and prolific photographer whose art works result from a restless desire to examine the possibilities of photography, painting and experimental process techniques that merge mediums and redefines photography. The artist embraces the technological revolution that merges still and motion photography, but the foundation of his aesthetic remains rooted in the actual shoot, not in digital post-visualization.
Whether he is using the camera's ability to record or the chemical processes of photography to embody energy and emotion, his works are passionate images that are exploring how we know the world through the medium of photography.
Distinctions between commercial and art photography blur in the transmedial work of Krantz, who finds time for personal projects. His fine art photography is represented by Danziger Projects in New York City.
In addition to producing award-winning photography for a global roster of clients, including Nokia, Wells Fargo, Adam Kimmel, The U.S. Army and more, Krantz has devoted much of his career to capturing the American west, a sliver of the United States that, for so many, encapsulate its history and spirit at its purest.
Further, three publications are in production: "Equivalents", which highlights his fascination with abstract formal relationships and what they can mean; "Time & Decay", a highly interpretive series of images that examines an abandoned state penitentiary; "Fragments: Surviving Cambodia", work that explores how appearance and reality rarely mirror each other, but in Cambodia the slippage seems even more profound. Jims work is currently exhibited in the Splashlight Studios NY at the IPA Best in Show.
Jim Krantz Photography: http://www.jimkrantz.com
Jim Krantz Fine Art: http://www.krantzart.com