Photographer Daniel Bellman is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. From the project ‘People’. To see Daniel’s body of work, click on any photograph.

BIO

Daniel Bellman (b. 1977) is an Italian/American photographer based in New York City. Discovering a fascination for analog cameras and film at an early age, he started taking pictures in his twenties in his spare time, always working with analog cameras and film. His occasional but long-standing dedication to photography — mainly practiced on the street — is revealed by a distinctive style born of an innate skill for capturing harmonious compositions, a keen awareness of the subtleties of light, and a narrative quality stemming from a solid background in the art of filmmaking.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I like to think of street photography as something akin to the arcane divining practice of searching water with a dowsing rod. Relying on intuition and fate, the acolyte-photographer roams uncharted grounds with a camera in search of chance events to be imbued with form and meaning in the twinkling of an eye, hoping that the collision of fortuity and intent will deliver a spark of some sort.

After indulging for years in taking my camera out for a walk with no apparent reason other than engaging in this hopeful random search, it occurred to me that a coherent body of work was spontaneously taking shape, much like foliage sprouting from a tree.

This realization spurred me to continue this practice with an eye attuned to the underlying threads running across my work, which altogether appear to stem from an attempt at evoking this possibility: that under the mundane, casual surface of reality there lies a subtle transcendental layer infusing meaning into our existence — an essential aspect of life that tends to be neglected in an era permeated by a distracted and skeptical attitude