Daniel Newcomb

Daniel Newcomb – American Photographer (b. 1973). For 25 years, Newcomb has worked as a commercial architectural photographer for world famous interior designers and architects. He has shot properties for clients like Tommy Hilfiger, Kenny Rogers, David Ortiz, and Hard Rock International. All the while, his fine-art lens has been exploring the world, focused on forgotten architectural sites.

Daniel starting creating images at the age of 15 when his parents gave him his first 35mm camera and a darkroom. He was shy, but found solace in books, painting, music, and writing poetry. He felt a kinship in the works of Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Miles Davis, Raymond Chandler, Charles Bukoswki, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and all the jazz and rock poets he could consume. His camera became a way to express his emotions, and he was soon mixing his poetry and historic info with his art. He states, “I found this extra engagement with the viewer which could nudge a person’s feelings towards how I felt at the time of creation.”

From different formats of film to digital, his tools are ever-changing, but he always has a camera and journal book in hand. “This keeps my mind from just exploding. I have all these images and words in mind that I must continually have flowing out like a rambling jazz solo.”

Artist Statement

I have carried a camera and journal book with me for over 35 years looking for vignettes that give me pause — an old window, a rusted obsolete fire escape, a flickering hotel sign, an empty field, or a breath-taking vista. These can all be visions that help me to express my feelings, energy, and thoughts onto the world. So much beauty, on so many levels, is taken from us on a daily basis. Much of it we do to ourselves of our own free will. In America, especially, we tend to stucco over or tear down our past and replace it with subpar, soulless, hackneyed structures. My intention is to artistically preserve these little slices. We should not forget these nostalgic series of art dreams. I display them here for our memories and for our children’s memories.

As Jack Kerouac said: “I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder…”