Nick Marmolejo

I am a revealer, a photographer. The purpose of my art is to express my feelings and reactions to the beauty of the world as it is revealed by light. The moods created by the daily and annual cycles of natural light are what I capture with my camera.

When working, whether in black and white or color, my intent is to express to the viewer my vision of form, line, and texture and like music, black and white photography bypasses the rational mind to touch the heart directly.

Today, I make photographs in a more serendipitous manner. I let the light lead me, and I slow down until I am called, until… I am truly feeling and seeing my photograph. In my best moments I hope to make an image that can create an emotion in the viewer’s heart equivalent to my own.

I use both film & digital cameras to capture my images. My current prints are made with archival pigment inks on museum quality, acid-free, cotton papers. They are archival and rival; even sometimes exceed the quality I have gotten from my silver prints.