Dave Urena | Photo Paintings

I’ve always been in love with the camera. I admire the way it captures what it sees in an instant, in a snap — and in detail.  

 

For as long as I’ve had childhood fantasies of making pictures and a desire to document my travels in this world, I have searched for a camera that shows me what I see, what I notice, what I sense. The machine calls to me.

 

But a camera can only show you what it sees. 

 

When I discovered that my eyes don’t see the way a camera sees, I tried different ways of taking pictures that might show off the world that I see. 

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It’s a dance between the machine and me. Sometimes I lead; sometimes I follow. ​These images are the shapes of many dances I’ve had with a camera as I record the world and being in it.