Randal Fippinger has built a career supporting and producing provocative movement-based artists from around the world. Simultaneously, he explored capturing moments in time through photography. Working in digital, he uses a Fujifilm and his iPhone to capture candid, everyday life interactions, often called “street photography.”
Randal’s stage work is predominately in ballet and modern dance, where a gesture, a look, or a step, tell a story or convey a feeling. The subjects of his photography do the same thing. Randal’s work is the daring process of noticing and documenting the intersection of what is public and what is private. These images provoke the viewer, as an accomplice, to ask questions and derive their own meaning.
He has been a photographer his whole life. However, it has only been in the last few years that he has focused on photography with the same thoughtfulness as his stage-based producing.
J Alexander Baker, Fine Art Photography
As a child, I sat in the dusty light of my grandfather’s attic, pouring over his collection of old National Geographic and Life magazines. I fell in love with the evocative images of the wide world and dreamed of going to all those places of adventure, drama and beauty. The pictures were everything in those great publications from the 1930s thru the 60s by the finest photographers in the world. For many years I traveled from city to city, working in the theater and film as an actor, designer, and stage manager. At first, I photographed my own designs, but inspired by the images I found in that attic, I began to study photography, taking classes when I could and beginning to do more and more photography of whatever caught my eye.
I had a portable darkroom and shot, developed and printed thousands of photographs. My time was divided between recreating reality on the stage and capturing it in the camera. Over time, my work has evolved primarily into fine art photography of haunting landscapes and architecture, travel and street photography and of course it also became digital. I still do performance photography, especially dance. As a former lighting designer, I dearly love the beauty and drama of a performer in the spotlight, but it’s the street photograph of my travels that steals my heart.
For more than five decades, Carlos Caicedo has redefined visual storytelling through his art. As a creative force whose work transcends boundaries, he continues to explore the delicate balance between form and emotion, transforming the simple into the extraordinary. That applies not only to familiar objects, but the discovery of the beauty behind people’s normal lives. Each image invites viewers to rediscover the beauty of what is often overlooked, a signature of his boundless creative curiosity.
“In making art, I always say that the process is as enjoyable and stimulating as the final result. I see the world we live in as a blank canvas, where nothing has been scripted. It’s you and your subject. Capturing that unexpected moment by being and staying invisible is what makes the final shot so rewarding. The viewer sees the world through the eyes of the photographer”.
