Michael Elkan's visual perception as a photographer has been influenced by his professional experience as an architect. He trained in the United Kingdom at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and went on to pursue an international
career, first in the office of Norman Foster and later with Richard Rogers, in whose Tokyo office he spent more than two years in the early nineties. Michael is now based in Vancouver, British Columbia. In his 20 years working at the leading edge if
international design, he has made significant design contributions to many well-known, award-winning buildings. It is interesting to observe that the architectural design skills he acquired and developed in this period now intuitively inform his
approach to making photographs. It is a process of pre-visualising and composing an image in which the essential concept is strengthened and refined through the elimination of any distracting or irrelevant visual element. What is left in the frame is
there to communicate an idea with clarity, or intentional ambiguity. The influence of his architectural sensibilities is direct evident in subjects where the visual elements are often abstracted to express a tectonic idea, and in many of his
landscape photographs, geological structures are clearly recognized in architectural terms. His development as a designer and photographer has run in parallel with his spiritual journey over 35 years. His visual sense has been formed by an integrated
world view in which all good things in the whole of life are perceived to come from the dynamic, divine One who is there, as evidenced in the created world and in scripture. More information on Michael Elkan and his works can be found at
www.michael-elkan.com
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