Creating the Lake Series

Creating the Lake Series

“What makes this project special to me is the actual act of creating the Lake Series. A single photograph from the project is more than simply an image, it is part of a long term process of artistic inquiry into self and subject. The photograph connects to me, connects to the lake, connects to time, to history and to everyone who also shares a relationship to this place. All of these connecting threads come together to form the Lake Series.”

"What makes this project special to me is the actual act of creating the Lake Series. A single photograph from the project is more than simply an image, it is part of a long term process of artistic inquiry into self and subject. The photograph connects to me, connects to the lake, connects to time, to history and to everyone who also shares a relationship to this place. All of these connecting threads come together to form the Lake Series."

In the fall of 2015 Lincoln Schatz began taking photographs of Lake Michigan. Returning each day for a month to photograph the lake and sky together. Studying the interaction between water, light and weather, Schatz restricted his subject and his camera’s frame to these elemental materials and in doing so began an artistic dialog with this remarkable landscape that continues today.

Now available for online viewing, Lake Series: Landscape Time, creates a focused portrait of Lake Michigan from the last two years of the Lake Series. View the entire collection here, https://www.lincolnschatz.com/lake-series/lake-series-landscape-time/.