Bio
J-F Vergel was born in Paris in the 20th century. He has been a New Yorker since he was ten.
J-F Vergel is a self-taught photographer and has been shooting full time since 2006.
At various times in his life J-F Vergel has been:
A guitar player, a songwriter, a model builder, an architectural designer, a bouncer, a chef, a soundman, a messenger, a wallpaper designer, a teacher, a draughtsman, a logger, a scriptwriter, and more importantly he was featured in Iron Horse Magazine (issue no. 132) with his beloved '79 Hardtail.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness...
Genesis 1:4-5
... And the medium is light.
Photography is the industrialized bastard cousin of Impressionism; the principles that define the impressionist style of painting also typify photography.
Light: luminous, weightless, radiant, playful, gentle, warm, shimmering, entertaining, ever changing...
An impressionist painter dissects reflected light and transfers it to canvas with a stroke of his brush in the same way a photographer captures an image onto a light sensitive film or plate and transfers it to paper. The techniques are worlds apart but the result in each medium forces us to take a few steps back - away from the abstraction of brush strokes, dots and pixels - to allow us see a clearer, unambiguous big picture.
The Impressionists exploited available light, even working outdoors under natural sunlight - en plein air. With that same approach, I choose to shoot with the light that is available to me at the time. Rarely do I find the need to manipulate it preferring to work with it and around it; pursuing light and chasing shadows in my endeavor to seize it. Light, in all its glory and tonality, is the paint I choose to apply; the camera, my brush; impressionism, in a sense, my discipline.
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