Portraits of Cars

Portraits of Cars isolates the essential geometry of historically significant automobiles—not as machines, but as sculptural forms shaped by intention. These works use Painting With Light, my hand-guided illumination technique that directs light intentionally across contour and surface, giving it a distinct voice.

By removing environment and reducing the frame to its elemental structures, the automobile becomes a stage for illumination. Form is where the voice of light becomes visible, revealing proportion, tension, and balance in ways unseen in full environment. These works function less as documentation and more as encounters with designed structure.

This series reflects the continuity that defines my practice:

I am not documenting objects—I am photographing light as it moves across structure.

Portraits of Cars forms an early pillar of the philosophy I call The Illumination of Form—the understanding that illumination reveals architecture within any subject it touches.