Chris Kovacs' photostream

Artist’s Statement

Black and white photography is a passion that began to surface in 2005 when I became enchanted by the effects of this style of photography. Since then I have become increasingly prolific when it comes to presenting my unique view of the world’s seascapes, shorelines and architecture in a similar fashion.

I choose to shoot primarily in black and white because I find it less distracting than color. Black and white images let the eye wander with the lines and shapes that make up the mood and feeling in my images. I find that textures as seen in a black and white photograph contrast in such a way that they exude a sense of peace within a rugged place, for example the look of weathered rocks against a calm ocean as seen in a black and white image opens a calmness within me.

My images tend to lend themselves toward the darker side of our earth’s landscapes. I have always had a fascination with the earth’s formation, particularly with all the hostility it has endured over billions of years in order to become the earth we know today. This fascination along with my love of black and white long exposure photography combines in such a way that my works are described as eerie, surreal, ominous and hauntingly beautiful.

Chris Kovacs