A lot of people favor photographs of people. I myself mostly enjoy photographing people. I am, however, drawn to a quality of statelessness which, though can be found portraiture, is more easily conveyed in photographs devoid of the human element. I find these kinds of photographs to be eloquent studies of color and composition, seemingly prosaic, but ,in fact ,understated treasures of photographic excellence. One of my all time favorite photographers is Stephen Shore, who enjoyed a stellar career by the age of 19 or something like that, when he met Andy Warhol. When he was still a teenager, Edward Steichen (who was the photography curator at the Met at the time) bought a few of his photographs. Lucky him.

Photos by Stephen Shore:




On deviantART, I found an under-appreciated gallery of excellence, belonging to a Canadian photographer named Levi. He shoots with a Hasselblad and has a passion for the discontinued Kodak Portra 100T film, which he has thankfully hoarded. I find in his work such a complicated vision, blessed with both logic and intuition, that I can't adequately convey how much I appreciate it. On dA, he is known as ~stateless. I'm not sure if he has other accounts online but assume he does.

Photos by Levi, ~stateless: