Wall, Weed, and Sky, Costa Norte, Dominican Republic

• Photographer
  Sam Rittenberg
• Technical Info
  Ss: 1/320 Iso: 100 F/6.3 Sensor: 45.7mp Fx-format Bsi Cmos Sensor
• Photo Date
  10/10/23

“Wall, Weed, and Sky” considers the infinite and cyclical nature of beauty and being. The subject of the photograph is a once brightly painted, now fading wall on the costa norte of the Dominican Republic adorned by the crown of weeds that has grown in front of it. Color and light were used to manipulate the elements within the photograph so as to express more fully the protean nature of their existence and their beauty - and by reference, the beauty and ever changing nature of all things.

Sam Rittenberg lives and works in New York City and the Dominican Republic. His primary focus is on photography’s ability to explore the paradoxical interplay between the finite and the infinite. He is guided by the belief that every image holds the potential to serve as a portal to what ordinarily lies beyond us.