Omani Landscapes / Photography
PhotographyOmani LandscapesJEBEL AKHDAR / OMAN2023

Omani Landscapes

Oman / 2023

“Is a photograph defined by how it looks, or how it's made?” — LW

Omani Landscapes starts with Leica photographs made in Oman and uses software to extract and reconstruct the underlying line and pattern structure.

Source photographs were made in Oman, including Wahiba Sands and Jebel Akhdar. The final works are generated from those photographs through software-based pattern extraction and reconstruction.

Omani Landscapes / Line & Pattern

A study of feminine and masculine — color laid over what the land already is: the dunes inherently feminine, the mountains inherently masculine.

Omani Landscapes starts with Leica photographs made in Oman and uses software to extract and reconstruct the underlying line and pattern structure.

Source photographs were made in Oman, including Wahiba Sands and Jebel Akhdar. The final works are generated from those photographs through software-based pattern extraction and reconstruction.

Source photographs made with the Leica S (Typ 007) in Oman, 2017; final works generated through software-based pattern extraction and reconstruction, 2023.
2023

Omani Landscapes / In progress

/ ARCHIVAL PIGMENT

/ ILFORD GALERIE GOLD FIBRE SILK

/ LAUMONT PHOTOGRAPHIC, NEW YORK

Process
Archival pigment print
Paper
Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk
Printer
Laumont Photographic, New York
Edition
of 3 + 2 AP

Omani Landscapes

Oman / 2023

Leica photographs of Oman, reconstructed to their underlying line and pattern structure.

Source photographs made in Oman — including Wahiba Sands and Jebel Akhdar — reconstructed through software-based pattern extraction into large-scale panoramic works.

Edition of 3 + 2 AP

OMANI LANDSCAPES / 2023

JEBEL AKHDAR OMAN

Omani Landscapes starts with Leica photographs made in Oman and uses software to extract and reconstruct the underlying line and pattern structure.

Source photographs were made in Oman, including Wahiba Sands and Jebel Akhdar. The final works are generated from those photographs through software-based pattern extraction and reconstruction.

Made in 2023, at the threshold of generative image-making, the work presses a question the moment had just made urgent — what is a photograph? When a machine can compose a picture from words alone, never opening a shutter or standing in a place, it weighs whether a photograph is defined by how it looks or by how it is made.

Leica S (Typ 007) Medium Format; software pattern extraction and reconstruction.

ARCHIVAL PIGMENT
ILFORD GALERIE GOLD FIBRE SILK
LAUMONT PHOTOGRAPHIC, NEW YORK
EDITION OF 3, 2 APS

Omani Landscapes

Omani landscape surface.
Selected Omani Landscapes photograph.
Selected Omani Landscapes photograph.