Biography:

Dan Blair is a photographer and teacher from Falls Village, Connecticut who has lived on three continents and photographed in more than 15 countries. Currently working on developing this and other projects in the U.S, he aims to extend his work exploring how we come together as communities through collective visual expression, and how we find ourselves progressing as urban and rural societies in the Americas.

He is a 2003 graduate of Bucknell University
with a degree in Literature.

I see the world illuminated by the interplay of natural and human creation-of man dwelling in isolated areas where solitary figures give a true sense of scale to nature, and of cities where traces of nature are imported or copied and postured to best give scale to our own impressive creations and edifices. I am most intrigued by juxtapositions of place, when I find rural life active in the middle of a metropolis, or people gathering in the desert like tribesmen at an ancient ritual, gesturing to the sun that they have returned to find solace, simply. A walk finds me on each block or around each bend in the path poised to realize a potential for meaning in nature or in man’s abstract reorganization of it. After little time I began to notice an otherwise overlooked dynamism in things, a limitless potential for discovery. I walk by houses and find that they mimic nature’s scheme, wind my way through the geometry of small towns and the emptiness of the desert and turn up in bars in distant cities. I find it most interesting to observe where people are moving through rather than where they are moving to. It is with this spontaneity that these images were made, along with the belief that wherever it is that we stop to look, we will find ourselves there.These Images are direct prints from Photographic Transparencies and have not been cropped or digitally manipulated in anyway.Dan Blair