Harvey Lloyd

It probably would not be much of an exaggeration to say that the artist and writer Harvey Lloyd has been everywhere, seen everything and done everything. The Indiana Jones of adventure photographers, Lloyd has hung out of helicopters doing the “Dead-man’s Curve over ice peaks, glaciers, deserts and cities in Alaska, Patagonia, Istanbul, Israel, Antarctica and Ayer’s Rock. He’s flown “aerobatics” in helicopters over The Panama Canal, Hong Kong, Tahiti, Rio, and seven seas.
On the lookout for new adventures, new visions and exotic journeys, Lloyd survived eye-to-eye encounters with five full-grown lions in Kenya scratching the tires of his open land rover and an angry mother elephant with her baby in South Africa. He endured the nightmare of a near engine failure in a light plane in pitch darkness over the crags and needles of Canyonlands National Park. His revolutionary new BREAKING THE LIGHTdigital camera made abstract images (so named by friend and artist Ivana Lovincic) dare to confront the establishment of traditional photography with visions of the future. MOONLIGHT SONATAS create a new canvas of abstract digital camera moon paintings never before seen
Lloyd roams the world creating new art projects, trashing didactic conformity in the arts, and looking forward to a second half century of creative iconoclastic fury. He embraces the new art of digital photography as the wildly free and opportunity filled future of the art. His picture book AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY (1990) was the first book on the practice and technique of the art. His recent book FIRE IN MY HAIR is about reinventing the art of photography in the digital age.
The globe circling artist, director, writer, poet and photojournalist has traveled over a million and a half miles during photo missions on the seven continents. His 2009 shoots went around the world vertically and horizontally from Antarctica to Alaska, from Istanbul to Singapore and in 2010 to Costa Rica, the Danube, Rhine, Seine in Europe and the Volga and Neva in Russia. Aerial photography in 2009 covered “YELLOWSTONE: The Devil’s Volcano” project, “The DEAD SEA MIRAGES,” in Israel and Arizona and Utah National Parks on the Colorado Plateau.