Award-winning photographer Torrance York looks through her lens, and sees an opportunity to examine something in the landscape and shape a new environment with her camera. By keeping certain details in sharp focus and allowing the surrounding context to be out of focus, she creates a picture into which the viewer can visually step. As she describes it, “an image that conveys the amazement of being on one small point in a vast universe.”

ARTIST STATEMENT

Road Works series

Each large-scale photograph from the series Road Works is titled with the Global Positioning coordinates of the point from which it was captured.  An exploration of marks on roads, this series looks at the road as a palimpsest--an accumulation of traces from journeys traveled, nature's impact and evolving public works on these communal paths.

Photographed with a shallow depth of field these images preserve the sensory experience of each place as if seen through our peripheral vision.

From the series Road Works