Seth Smoot
Photographer
09/10/09
There is a hard-to-describe, but unifying epic quality to the tone and framing of Seth Smoot’s photos. They at once feel very familiar to me, and then, on further observation, hit me with the depth and detail he’s captured.
Take some of the examples above: I first notice the bison, and then the breadth of landscape and mountains behind them. It’s surreal, almost like two distinct photos in a strange harmony. In the portrait to the right, I love his lighting and the way he’s posed his subject, but I’m even more captured by the way the surroundings match the colors in the subject. Beautiful stuff.
(via @wiseacre)