David Schoerner

My work mainly deals with the photographic practice. I work with a large format camera and photograph still lifes, landscapes, portraits and appropriate or re-photograph images from items such as a signed postcard from a star of the 90s sitcom "Saved by the Bell" to stills of fisherman from the reality TV show "Deadliest Catch" and a photograph of an old painting. These various types of pictorial imagery heighten our awareness of the camera's roles. I am interested in what can happen when these various images are brought together, whether on a wall or in a book. The works are somewhat autobiographical yet made in an impersonal way to allow for the subject to become more general and create the possibility of a closer relationship with the viewer.