Liskotography

Liskotography When I make a photograph, I am literally cropping out the rest of existence — its tension, its chaos, its hunger, its pain.

For one small moment, I wall myself into a world of my own creation ... artist statement

In 2001, in an elevator in the Bank of America Corporate Center, somewhere between the metal detector at the lobby’s entrance and my cubicle on the 72nd floor, I realized I was dying — not immediately, but inevitably, and that the pile of papers I’d been spending my life shuffling from one end of my desk to t

he other, would, in the end, mean nearly nothing. That moment has colored everything since. It has meant the end of doing what I was supposed to do; the end of being responsible first; the end of trying to synthesize the practical and the lucrative into a life plan my guidance counselor would recommend. Somewhere along the line, I picked up my camera. And I used it as a sort of dowsing rod which I hoped would point itself toward something that would turn out to be important to me. That something turned out to be a sense of balance, of simplicity, of stillness. For one small moment, I wall myself into a world of my own creation; a world where things may not make immediate narrative or logical sense, but where everything is in balance. Thin, almost pencil-drawn lines offset wide, flat spaces. The smooth hardness of glass acts as counterweight to the fine hairs of a polyester wig. I don’t have any pretensions of long-term escape. I know when I put the camera down, when I step back from the print, there will be something like an avalanche of smells and voices, car alarms and newspaper headlines, legal obligations and biological concerns. I will be a part of things again over which I have no control. But for a moment, I have hidden long enough to take a breath.

09/23/2022
This is what I love to do best - Take photos in ambient light of people just being themselves, and places, mostly as the...
09/24/2014

This is what I love to do best - Take photos in ambient light of people just being themselves, and places, mostly as they were when I showed up. Please let me know if I can do this for your family, wedding...company picnic. :)

03/24/2014
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03/11/2011

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Photographer Tim Lisko captured these photographs on a high-speed bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka. Though motion has certainly been captured before, these become beautiful color studies.

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02/06/2011

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Carolyn Springer, a recipient of the Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellowship, traveled to Japan in March 2010 and in this body of work she captures her time there. (See images from the show.) In Gallery No. 2 - Shinkansen - photographs by Tim Lisko. In Hank & Dolly's - More Candy

12/22/2010

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