STATEMENT

Timothy Wilson has been a fine art photographer for over thirty years, beginning with black and white images of Martha’s Vineyard taken with an antique twin lens Rolleifex. Knowing that he wanted to go beyond the recording of photogenic places, Wilson sought guidance and critique from artists and photographers he respected. This may explain why many of his images are often mistaken for paintings; his work purposely obscures the boundary between painting and photography, emphasizing shape and atmosphere rather than content or locale. Wilson’s work includes both representational and abstract images of land, water, rock faces and botanicals.

For the majority of his career, Wilson processed and printed black and white images in his darkroom, the early ones being in apartment closets and bathrooms. Later he added printing with Kodacolor and Cibachrome chemistry and learned to archivally mat and frame his work. Given his place on the timeline of photographic technology, Wilson experienced the often conflicting transition from darkroom to digital, a formative journey that led him to now comfortably straddle film and digital photography.