James Porto

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“My goal is to make composite photographic images that...follow all the physical laws of a straight photograph, such as unity of perspective, light quality, and direction.”

At age 11, I fell in love with the black-and-white darkroom process at school. It didn’t even matter which pictures I printed, as long as I had a negative to print. I developed a hunger to print more interesting negatives and turned my attention to that most essential aspect of photography, taking pictures.

I set out to master the techniques that would free me to create images I saw in my dreams but didn’t exist in reality. I developed a system of seamlessly combining ...

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