©Glen Scheffer, Predicting the Trajectory of a Meteor

Glen Scheffer lives in Nashua and is a professor at NHIA. Record Scapes, The Water is Cold Here, Performance of Space are his other photographic series. They can be seen on his website, http://www.glenscheffer.com and at Alison Williams new gallery in Turner Hill, Massachusetts, Florish.

Glen Scheffer enjoys using photography to create images that play between realistic representation and the imagined. Scheffer uses large and medium format cameras to construct his interpretations and cultivate his vision. Scheffer’s work is finished through the darkroom, as large archival pigment prints, as well as handmade books. Scheffer has exhibited his work regularly in the Boston area and nationally. Scheffer resides in New Hampshire where he teaches photography at the New Hampshire institute of Art.

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In 1874, James Nasmyth and James Carpenter published their hypotheses on how the surface of the moon came to be. They used the optimum technologies available to them, including photography, to illustrate their ideas. Viewing through a telescope, they made detailed drawings that were transformed into topographic models. The models were then photographed under light to simulate how the rays of the sun light the surface of the moon. In the end, they had beautiful photographic details of the moon’s surface. These photographs, realistic in their representation, referenced the moon’s surface authentically. Nasmyth creates a dialogue between fact and perception. This has inspired me to investigate and interpret cultural understandings of exploration and perception through the transmission of photography.

I create photographs of the imagined and fabricated intertwined with a documentation of objects, weaving the seductive image with a deconstruction of the illusion. Imagery feeds a continual pursuit of knowledge and affirmation. Recently, there has been a rush of scientific and galactic exploration brought to life through images. I am interested in navigating what these images mean for me, these are places I cannot get to, things I cannot see with my own eyes, I have only the impression of pictures to explore. – Glen Scheffer

©Glen Scheffer, Eclipse

©Glen Scheffer, Meteorite Fragments

©Glen Scheffer, Galaxy Projections

©Glen Scheffer, Star Burst 1

©Glen Scheffer, Star Burst 2

©Glen Scheffer, Profile of a Primordial Comet

©Glen Scheffer, Sara as an Astronomical Object

©Glen Scheffer, Star Paths 1

©Glen Scheffer, Experimenting with Rotational Torque

©Glen Scheffer, Moon Illumination

©Glen Scheffer, Dark Asteroid

©Glen Scheffer, Reconstruction of a Meteor’s Trajectory

©Glen Scheffer, Event Horizon

©Glen Scheffer, Galaxy Projections