Photography for me is an avocation, a way of living life through a viewfinder or even an old-fashioned wooden camera ground-glass ... capturing and documenting how I see the world around me regardless of subject.  

I prefer not to segment myself, I truly believe an artist should be at home in all the aspects of the chosen craft, master the tools and hone the required transferable skills... I capture landscapes, cityscapes, bodyscapes with the same ease and passion as the intimate portrait.

What I photograph is not the "thing" I see but what I sculpt it to be.  As in the other arts I dabble in, words, photographs and paintings are symbols of what I feel, at times the remnants of an impression, the "things" I want them to to be, but not the "things" verbatim.  I craft and mold the image till I re-live the memory of seeing, connecting, feeling, sharing ... 
 

I often strive for an uncluttered view in my images and isolate the subject from distracting backgrounds to ease the eye of the viewer into the story.

The majority of my work aims to document each subject's beauty, complexity, uniqueness, shock-value and intimacy, creating images saturated with emotion and wonder.

As for my work with people, I love to explore the body and I'm fascinated with faces and how emotion is communicated in the often complex photographer/sitter-model relationship, always exploring emotion, angles, space, reflection, tonality, light and shadow ... but in the end, it's always about the heart and soul.

Rudi Amedeus Blondia