Contemporary Photographer Assignment 3 - Chip Forelli

‘Chip Forelli's photographic objective is to acknowledge and celebrate the existence of beauty - he often finds it in unexpected or overlooked places and circumstances. He refers to these encounters as "Visual Gifts" and in turn offers them to us in the form of a fine photographic print for our own reflection. Like a Zen garden, composed of a few uncluttered objects, each of Forelli's images invite the viewer to imagine himself in the landscape. "My goal is to suggest an emotional response to the viewer and leave enough room for interpretation. I like the images to provoke a second look with some questions not immediately answered." The essence of his approach is a delicate balance of aesthetic and technical controls, this being the foundation of the workshops he conducts.’ http://www.bentleypublishinggroup.com/bios/forelli.html

Mr. Forelli was born in 1950 and began his career as an architect and a musician.  He discovered photography and was “drawn to it because there’s a demand for a fine balance between aesthetics, sensibility and craft.  If you alter the balance you run the risk of becoming overly conceptual or preoccupied with technology”.

Mr. Forelli has been a photographer for the past 25 years and provides photos and videos for companies such as Microsoft, AT&T and Olympus cameras to mention a few.  He is the recipient of numerous awards internationally.  Today he lives in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania with his wife and their three sons.

http://www.chipforelli.com/