ABOUT

Jy Chiperzak: 

 

From my first box camera, age 10, the camera has been a part of my life. Evolving from a traditional documentary form, my images are taking on a more abstract edge… my eyes, my camera in a dervish dance, the dance of life.

My images are an experiment in the peripheral, “captures” in movement, colour… emotive and moody. When the soul dances, gravity ebbs, colours gyre. In my ongoing portrait series I’m trying to capture a mood and pose that evokes a visceral contact with the subject that goes beyond the individual being portrayed; the emotive presence of  a body in a place and time.

 

I hope to tax people’s ideas of photography and of their vision of the world around them. It’s a “seeing” of the periphery in our fast paced world… flashes of colour and form… the unnoticed, out of focus from our every day.

For many years the camera was a tool used in context with other creative pursuits: Now the camera is my paint brush.

 

Bio:

 

Artist: The shift from still & film cameras as documentary tools to expressionist tool.

 

Filmmaker: From the underground feature film “Montreal Main” to freelance producing/directing for the National Film Board and CBC Nature of Things.

 

Writer: Books, magazine articles, conservation manuals for rare breeds conservation.

 

Farmer & founder of Rare Breeds Canada, an organization for the conservation of livestock genetic resources.