Clay McGurk

Astrological Sign

Capricorn

A Favorite Quote

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” — Thomas Edison

Photographic Influences

Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud, Marcel Duchamp, Vincent Van Gogh, Francis Bacon, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Charles Sheeler, Eliot Porter, Stephen Shore, Galen Rowell, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay

Photographic Education

No formal education – self taught

Current Reading Material

Beat Memories – The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

Recent Photographic Project

“Apparitions” Series

Most Interesting Assignment or Previous Occupation?

Learning how to take photographs in a moving vehicle for my “Night Lights” series and my “Roadtrip” series.

Project Statement

Permanence is a myth — everything changes. We are ghosts in a constantly moving, in flux, transcendent, changing world.