Visual artist Andrew Pounder Follow.Art Card

About me

Fine Art Photographer capturing the interplay of light, structure, and landscape, with a focus on urban and coastal environments. Specialising in monochrome, landscape, HDR, and still-life photography. Published author and exhibitor with a commitment to creative exploration and technical excellence.

Artist Statement: The Intentional Unbound

My practice as a fine art photographer is a deliberate rejection of the expected. I do not pursue a signature style, nor do I confine myself to a single genre, medium, or aesthetic philosophy. Instead, I embrace photographic promiscuity, finding creative vitality in the random, the accidental, and the radically disparate.
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A Celebration of the Unbound
My portfolio is an ever-shifting landscape, purposefully devoid of a single anchor point. One series might delve into the stark, monochromatic minimalism of the landscape, while the next explodes with the vibrant, chaotic staging of a street documentary, and another might employ the soft focus and grain of an entirely different era. Each project, each image, is treated as an independent visual argument, requiring its own unique language—a language I choose from the entire lexicon of photographic history and technique.
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The Power of Context
In a world where algorithms push us toward comforting consistency, I choose to disrupt. The consistency in my work is not in its look, but in the underlying intent to observe, react, and translate without stylistic constraint. This approach insists that the subject—the light, the moment, the narrative—should dictate the method. The true challenge is not to make everything look the same, but to discover the most honest, powerful way to present each unique vision, even if that means abandoning the rules I followed just the day before.