In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
John SextonSo when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
John SextonI find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.
John SextonTo convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film โ to walk out of the darkroom and say: โThis is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!โ. Thatโs what itโs all about.
John Sexton