A Trip Around the World Without Leaving Home
Join Ocean Art Gallery as we welcome globetrotting photographer William Toti and his exhibition, “Take a Photographic Tour of the World Without Leaving Home.” Having photographed globally on every one of the seven continents, Toti’s collection of images will provide you a wonderful opportunity to gaze on places far and wide while still tied down by this pandemic.
The great French street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson coined the phrase “the decisive moment” to describe images that captured a fleeting moment in time that would never be repeated. Toti’s process is to take the essence of Cartier-Bresson’s concept and apply it to landscape photography, finding unique, decisive moments in iconic and otherwise familiar scenes.
His photographic images explore an expansion of structure and color. One day, New York may be found in a hue somewhere between violet and lavender, modulated by the artificial lighting that permeates the city. Another day we may find it in a tone of blues and grays. The Palouse may be mostly green today, then veiled in a pink, misty fog tomorrow. A sunset scene may look orange in Iceland, pinkish in Norway. And Cinque Terre emerges as an unimaginable kaleidoscope, pushing the limits of the entire color spectrum. For Toti, those expansive palettes emerge as more than an element of the images, they become a photographic objective itself.
The great French street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson coined the phrase “the decisive moment” to describe images that captured a fleeting moment in time that would never be repeated. Toti’s process is to take the essence of Cartier-Bresson’s concept and apply it to landscape photography, finding unique, decisive moments in iconic and otherwise familiar scenes.
His photographic images explore an expansion of structure and color. One day, New York may be found in a hue somewhere between violet and lavender, modulated by the artificial lighting that permeates the city. Another day we may find it in a tone of blues and grays. The Palouse may be mostly green today, then veiled in a pink, misty fog tomorrow. A sunset scene may look orange in Iceland, pinkish in Norway. And Cinque Terre emerges as an unimaginable kaleidoscope, pushing the limits of the entire color spectrum. For Toti, those expansive palettes emerge as more than an element of the images, they become a photographic objective itself.