Not a day has passed in a person's life where their perceptions and experiences were unaltered by a deeply personalized, yet mostly invisible filter. Though our thoughts and perceptions are constantly convincing us otherwise, we rarely, if ever, have had contact with a truly objective world.
Once we embrace that our own viewpoints are inescapably subjective, what follows is arguably the most powerful realization a person can have:
Reality - or what we believe it to be - is not what it seems.
Ian's experience has been that the concept of objective reality is itself an illusion. The more completely one embraces the influence and inescapability of their own subjective lens, the closer they are to accepting the real diversity of the human condition. Photography is his chosen instrument for exploring subjectivity with others.
Ian grew up in New England and lived nearly a decade in Montana where he earned a degree in Film & Photography at Montana State University, Bozeman. He now lives happily with his wife, daughters, dog, and cat outside of Seattle.