About the Artist

Michael Griffin - Biography

Five Elements

My Lifelong Companions

I am a photographer residing in Washington state.

 

I create images that sit at the intersection of photography and digital art. My work begins with the camera and expands through digital processes, allowing reality, imagination, and atmosphere to coexist in a single frame. My work balances an awe for the natural world with a curious fascination of the dystopian beauty of concrete, metal, rust, and the marks of time.

 

I am guided by Color, Texture, Space, Place

and Time. These 5 elements playing in concert are how I photograph, how I create and how I see.

 

“A photograph without interpretation is only half an image.”

This is where the process begins. Not as correction, but as construction.

-Enrico Fossati