I've photographed my whole life — first just to keep moments from
disappearing. Somewhere along the way the documenting turned into
playing: chasing light, letting things blur, crouching for the angle
no one else wanted. That's when it became art. I'm self-taught behind
the camera, but my eye went to school — I studied architecture, and
I've never stopped seeing the world as structure: lines,
intersections, vanishing points, the beautiful constraints of the
built city.
My work lives between two subjects that shouldn't get along. The city
is constraint — brick, rail, colonnade, the strong line. The sea
answers to nothing. So I photograph the places they meet: piers
standing in the surf, trains flowing through rigid tunnels like rivers
permitted to run, long exposures that turn moving water into
architecture and city light into current. Structure and flow, trading
places.
If something here stopped you the way these places stop me — get in
touch at
jaykoob@jaykoobphotography.com,
or follow along at
@jkoobgallery.