From the artist: "From the time I was young, I've been fascinated by the experience of staring at something until it becomes unfamiliar. As I got older, I developed a capacity to induce that perceptual shift almost at will—something I expanded further through both meditation and drawing. What interests me most are small, quiet moments of clarity—the kind of moment when something mundane is seen vividly, as if for the first time. For me, the impulse to make a photograph almost always begins with that kind of a moment. It almost never begins with an idea."

Information
Age: 57
Nationality: American
Born: Providence, Rhode Island
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Inspiration: My overall approach to photography has been shaped most strongly by the work of Harry Callahan, Minor White and Emmet Gowin.
Website: josephgerhard.com
Photoblog: motelrodeo.com

Credits, Publications
Unmade Beds, Brink Magazine, Fall 2008 Unmade Beds, feature, The International Analog Photographic Society blog, February 2009
My work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in museums and galleries in the northeastern US.