4689.85 degrees kelvin: Lori Nix

Photography and disaster go together like peanut butter and jelly

Lori Nix is a NYC based photographer who specializes in creating miniatures. I have utilized her models for influence of the disaster models of my images. Though I have focused less on a whole diorama and more on the models, Ms. Nix's dioramas have been proof of the fruitfulness that comes from enjoying what you do.

Nix's subject matter, though constructed and not found, certainly derives from a vast imagination. It should not be lost that the world shows a great influence in her work. I believe, like myself, Ms. Nix uses colors in her images to methodically pinpoint the ways in which we interpret the world around us. She also uses depth of field, quite uniquely which has influenced the importance of depth of field in my work. Because of her work, I believe I have the ingrained idea that light and depth of field can create interest and narratives in an image.

Nix is daring and also works in film (as must be made known by the dates of the images below.) Film, and the palates it ensues, aids to the quality and ideas of her work. This has been one of the hardest aspects to replicate in digital photography.

There is something about Snow Storm which really attracts me. The work is flat and painterly- kind of like 15 minute masterpieces- but it is also exceptionally composed, a paradoxically subtle and bright palate: all of which make the disaster even more profound.

Her work is fun to look at, and, from my experience with models, it must have been fun to build. Art should be fun and insightful even when time consuming..