A CLEAN WELL LIGHTED PLACE | 7in x  8.5in on 14in x 18in | Unique Print, Limited Edition 1/3 | Artist Handstamped Text on 8 Ply White Matte, on Recto | From Medium Format Film  | Darkroom printed on archival silver gelatin fibre paper, selenium toned

LORENZ, Ken

(Canada)

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Ken Lorenz’s work is concerned with conceptual photography, and his art practice seeks to create images that challenge relational perceptions.

A retired Fine Arts educator, Ken has been making pictures for over four decades.   He works primarily with monochrome film, and is an experienced darkroom specialist. His body of work is extensive, and is heavily influenced by Eugene Richards, Diane Arbus, Duane Michals, and Ralph Gibson.

More recently, Ken’s artistic process includes the use of words and text.  He credits Albert Camus, Guillermo del Toro, T.S Eliot and Charles Baudelaire as being  influential. Words become motivation for him to see ‘photographically’, a concept that came from del Toro, who said “there is beauty and humility in imperfection”.    

In his short story, A Clean Well Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway  introduces nihilism as a backdrop for the representation of despair, depression and gloom .  Ironically, there appears nothing clean nor well- lit in this photograph, yet there exists an odd ‘beauty and humility in the imperfection’ of the house and surrounding scene.