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- Ruptured Expectations
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- A Closer Look
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- Looking Back
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- Searching for Meaning
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- Waking the Sleeping
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- Fibers of Time
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- The Sky Knows
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- Fruit of Knowledge
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- The Domino Effect
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- The Eyes Have It
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- Beating City Heart
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- Behind the Scene
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- Multiple Tiers of Light
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- Suspended Animation
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- The Chocking Sound
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- The Four Saviors
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- Music to My Eyes
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- She’s Got the Whole World in Her Hand
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- The Eyes Have It
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- Surreality
Victor Rosansky
Between Faith and Doubt
Photographs help me unlock the mysteries of the thought processes bubbling under the surface my awareness. Images can have the ability to capture and evoke the unpredictable. They can reveal surprises, new beginnings, new chances, and new narratives that are often hidden from plain view. By stepping back to observe and understand the images I capture or create, I am struck by what I can learn about myself and my life. The many variations in forms, structures, colors, and tones that make up images can be, confusing. Yet on further reflection the characteristics of images represent fragments of memories good and bad, fear arousing, and pleasurable that reside in my unconscious.
Soon I began to realize that seemingly unrelated fragments released through photographs can unite into a coherent narrative, a story that reveals what is active in the unconscious. Photography becomes a way to understand this unconscious, to decipher the working of the unconscious that exposes unseen drivers of thoughts and behaviors.
To further enhance the potential power of images, I incorporate surrealism into my photographs. This helps me free myself from learned, habitual ways of thinking. When appropriate I use infra-red technology using invisible light to help reveal the hidden.
Photography can be empowering especially when struggling to understand why I do what I do. Photography and photographic techniques provide me with a method to better understand and rethink my sense of self.
Artist Bio
Victor Rosansky grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and currently resides in Antrim, NH. He was a consultant to organizations using video media and images to tell stories and create narratives. In the 1960’s his interest in photography was stimulated by his consulting work and by his Uncle Charlie’s gift of a 1950’s 35mm LEICA rangefinder camera. Victor processed and printed his pictures. Having considerable darkroom experience he still welcomed the simplification of the photographic technology with the advent of digital processing. Currently he uses a modified Sony for infra-red shooting, a Leica monochrome camera fror black and white, and a Canon camera with multiple lenses.
In the last five years, Victor has concentrated considerable attention to street photography, portrait photography black and white, infra-red. and surrealism. An avid musician he builds on the similarities between cameras and musical instruments by creating rhythms and flow in each.
His photography has been seen at the Bolli program at Brandeis University, the Vermont Center for Photography, West Newton Cinema and Newton Library. He has presented to photography clubs throughout New England on topics such as Henri Cartier-Bresson’s, “The Decisive Moment;“ “Black and White versus Color Photography;“ and “Night Photography.” He is an active member of several prominent camera clubs including the Boston Camera Club, the Vermont Center for Photography, and The White Light Group and has placed in juried photography competitions.
He has taken courses in portrait photography, landscape photography, Lightroom techniques, and the Cone Prtinting Piezography workshop. In addition, he participated in the Atelier year-long program at the Griffin Museum of Photography.