About David Young
My photographs are the result of a restless mind that's always wandering off into the woods. I explore the beauty of abstract forms, a beauty I find more arresting when it exists beneath and on the surface at the same time. Take a creek, a stream, a river: when I find a way to enter the dizzying whirl of color, light, and reflection, the camera lens becomes for me what the rabbit hole was for Alice, a portal to slip between the layers of representation and abstraction.
These are digital images created in-camera, using available light and without special lenses or filters. With camera in hand, I essentially seek to enter the frame of the photograph and discover what lies within. The disorienting sense of scale and subject matter mirrors my experience of these aquatic landscapes.
David's Biography
David Young was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where he spent long Southern summers wading in neighborhood creeks. He attended Duke University and the University of Vermont, where he was enrolled in the Environmental Studies program.
After graduation, wanderlust took hold and he traveled to the West Coast, eventually settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. However, his roots in the East proved too strong to sever, so he pulled up stakes and moved to New York City. For twenty years he worked in audiovisual production and public relations, until nature's pull was felt once again. For the past fifteen years he has worked as a landscape gardener, creating oases in the urban environment and serving as groundskeeper for a private estate in New Jersey.
In 2005, he began experimenting with digital photography, returning to the forests and streams of his youth with camera in hand. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries in Washington, DC; Atlanta and Charlottesville, VA; Black Mountain and Durham, NC; and his hometown, where the Birmingham News named Young "one of the most intriguing photographers working with images of nature," calling them "wonderfully voluptuous" and noting that they "suggest strands of silk being churned in liquid." Perhaps the Birmingham Botanical Gardens summed it up best: "David Young's crystalline color images demonstrate the breadth of photography as an artistic medium for conveying the limitless beauty of nature."
My photographs are the result of a restless mind that's always wandering off into the woods. I explore the beauty of abstract forms, a beauty I find more arresting when it exists beneath and on the surface at the same time. Take a creek, a stream, a river: when I find a way to enter the dizzying whirl of color, light, and reflection, the camera lens becomes for me what the rabbit hole was for Alice, a portal to slip between the layers of representation and abstraction.
These are digital images created in-camera, using available light and without special lenses or filters. With camera in hand, I essentially seek to enter the frame of the photograph and discover what lies within. The disorienting sense of scale and subject matter mirrors my experience of these aquatic landscapes.
David's Biography
David Young was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where he spent long Southern summers wading in neighborhood creeks. He attended Duke University and the University of Vermont, where he was enrolled in the Environmental Studies program.
After graduation, wanderlust took hold and he traveled to the West Coast, eventually settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. However, his roots in the East proved too strong to sever, so he pulled up stakes and moved to New York City. For twenty years he worked in audiovisual production and public relations, until nature's pull was felt once again. For the past fifteen years he has worked as a landscape gardener, creating oases in the urban environment and serving as groundskeeper for a private estate in New Jersey.
In 2005, he began experimenting with digital photography, returning to the forests and streams of his youth with camera in hand. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries in Washington, DC; Atlanta and Charlottesville, VA; Black Mountain and Durham, NC; and his hometown, where the Birmingham News named Young "one of the most intriguing photographers working with images of nature," calling them "wonderfully voluptuous" and noting that they "suggest strands of silk being churned in liquid." Perhaps the Birmingham Botanical Gardens summed it up best: "David Young's crystalline color images demonstrate the breadth of photography as an artistic medium for conveying the limitless beauty of nature."