| Joel
has been taking photographs since receiving his first camera as
a pre-teen. It was a point-and-shoot Kodak Instamatic. His next
camera was quite a jump from there -
a hand me down
Argus
35mm. It was completely manual and forced Joel to learn a thing or
two about the fundamentals of photography. By the time he reached
high school, Joel had gone through various second-hand 35mm
cameras
before getting a brand new SLR outfit with all the bells and whistles.
His continued interest in photography led him to join
his high school's photography club, where he began to explore the
darkroom. In the early 90s Joel was among the first to experiment
with digital photography
and he quickly embraced the technology and grew with it over the
next 10 years.
Today, Joel works strictly in digital
photography. He prefers the instant gratification and the complete
control over his work - as
both a photographer and an artist - that the technology offers.
More recently, he's honed his "digital darkroom" skills
and frequently employs various digital techniques to transform
his photographs into "painterly" scenes, which he calls "photographic
art."
Joel was born and raised on the Lower East
Side of New York City and still makes the LES his home.
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