Daniel Remer Photographs - Artist Bio & Purchasing Info Below

Daniel Remer is a fine art photographer, bridging the gap between photography and painting.

Daniel is known for his distinctive work in the field of light painting photography - a technique that allows him to blur the boundaries. Using a high-quality camera and lens in the studio, he sets up the still life compositions in front of the camera, then switches off all the lights. Then using a small flashlight, he lights parts of the object over time. He triggers the camera to take a long exposure of about ten seconds at which time he is moving the flashlight to add light while photographing the object. He usually takes about forty photographs and then merges them together in photoshop - using no AI. It’s not a collage, nor is it a composite of images.

The imagery often explores the philosophical themes such as mortality, belief, and existence, drawing inspiration from surrealist painters and placing deep symbolic meaning in each carefully composed scene. We are often reminded of the passage of time, while being in the present moment, which is to say, this might be a thoroughly modern technique, but the meaning and imagery has a definitive place in art history.

The objects take on metaphysical significance serving as a symbol of something beyond its material reality. Aspects of our own humanity, serving as a symbol of something beyond its material reality. Daniel anthropomorphizes objects to create narratives and emotional connections, which then serve as a mirror, allowing us to reflect on our own humanity and existential concerns.

The work is more like an alchemist, with a marriage of technique and object, that transforms the almost ordinary into a layered complex meditation. A new way of seeing... A photograph like no other.