Marten Elder

Marten Elder explores the digital and technological elements of image-making to reconsider how light is captured, produced, and perceived. Elder’s images are notable for their flattened picture planes, while the hallucinogenic tonal range of his photographs aids in disrupting their spatial hierarchy. His work persistently investigates the ongoing photographic problem of the translation of a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional image. Elder uses a documentary approach to capture the urban architectural elements and greenery of Los Angeles, the city in which he lives. At first glance, the colours may seem synthetic, but they all exist in the world with the same relative relationship to one another.