Biography
Kent Wisner is an American photographic artist. Raised as an only child of a widowed working mother, his formal education is in foreign languages, international relations and law. Wisner's images are expressions of curiosity about the precarity of life's journey, and the attempt to find a way forward and order amidst uncertainty. Most often these themes are manifest in landscapes, still life, and editorial subject matter. His work has appeared in a variety of American galleries, magazines and books, and has received awards in international juried photo competitions. Wisner currently lives in San Francisco.
Artist Statement:
I see life's journey as a series of precarious alliances between light and dark, chaos and order, and the fleeting and the permanent. I use photography both as a conscious chronicle of experience and an illumination of subtext. I have traveled around the world in my life, seeking to expand my sense of possibility from a somewhat solitary and localized latch-key upbringing. I've used this travel to make decorative images and to create contemplative work about intention competing with randomness, what is found and what is constructed in life.
