River Series Vietnam/Cambodia

On my first visit to Vietnam and Cambodia in april 2018, I was fascinated with how Southeast Asian life is impacted on every level by water. Homes, businesses, commerce, food, travel, etc are seamlessly a dynamic of rivers, lakes, and ocean. Although I am a loved of traditional stock and journalistic photography, I have chosen to attempt to explore a more painterly, artistic approach by experimenting with my image pixels as pigments that I can manipulate. My critics (and good friends) have lamented my former gift of capturing and portraying “reality” as if I have jumped on the band wagon of filters and special effects and have automated my style and now reflect a robotic “snapseed” approach. I can assure the viewer that as an influential painter said to me, “Lawrence you are making as many decisions as I do as a painter, and the way you add and subtract, emphasize and hide, change the “canvas” with layers over layers, requires as many decisions as I do, and is very similar to how I paint’”