Charles Grogg | American, 1966 -
Charles Grogg is a fine art photographer who works with botanical, still life, and natural imagery.
As a cross-disciplinary artist, Charles has synthesized imagery from literature as well as the pictorial arts into his imaginative workflow. Botanicals and other natural imagery, architecture, and nudes are often isolated from environmental backgrounds both to draw attention to their inherently sensual details and to make their implausible disconnection from the natural and vital world a cause for further investigation. The resulting portfolios marry the visible world to an audacious desire for satisfying forms. But, more intriguingly, the finished prints of these images are sensual artifacts, developed and toned in silver gelatin or luxuriously handcoated platinum/palladium on handmade Japanese gampi, a rare and beautiful washi.
Charles shoots Polaroid film on a 4x5 inch camera or medium format film developed in PMK Pyro.
Charles Grogg is a fine art photographer who works with botanical, still life, and natural imagery.
As a cross-disciplinary artist, Charles has synthesized imagery from literature as well as the pictorial arts into his imaginative workflow. Botanicals and other natural imagery, architecture, and nudes are often isolated from environmental backgrounds both to draw attention to their inherently sensual details and to make their implausible disconnection from the natural and vital world a cause for further investigation. The resulting portfolios marry the visible world to an audacious desire for satisfying forms. But, more intriguingly, the finished prints of these images are sensual artifacts, developed and toned in silver gelatin or luxuriously handcoated platinum/palladium on handmade Japanese gampi, a rare and beautiful washi.
Charles shoots Polaroid film on a 4x5 inch camera or medium format film developed in PMK Pyro.