William D. Burdette, photographer · photography@WilliamBurdette.net
My current work extends the split second photographic moment over the length of many days. Pointing a modified aerial bombsight out my apartment window, I expose architectural blue print paper. With the resulting cyanotype negative, I digitize it, invert the light values and make a positive print. I look for the beauty that hides between the abstract and the concrete. Photography provides me the means for refining my search for that place and fixing the light, making it available to be revisited, reinterpreted and re-expressed.
My artistic origins are in sound. During the late eighties I was a member of the Worcester Artists Group, an organization of experimental artists as well as a gallery and performance space in central Massachusetts, where I composed and performed music, and provided technical service for the resident and visiting artists. It was a sometimes harrowing, but always fruitful experience that brought me into contact with a vast array of artists of all types from around the world. Later I studied music and recording science at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Looking to expand into the visual realm, I studied photography with Jeanette Buffington-Weiser and Stephen DiRado at Clark University. I work with traditional photographic methods, alternative processes and am making forays into digital imaging. My most recent experiments incorporate photography with sculpture and motion.
