Ansen Seale
is an artist living and working in San Antonio, Texas. He received a BA in Journalism,
Broadcasting and Film and Studio Art from Trinity University in San Antonio, 1983. His photographs
have been exhibited in museums and galleries and have been collected by corporations and institutional
and private collectors.
Seale works with a special digital panoramic camera of his own invention. This camera captures a
vertical slit of the scene over and over in rapid succession, in effect, swapping the horizontal dimension
of the image plane for the dimension of time. Instead of mirroring the world as seen around us, this
camera records a hidden reality. The apparent distortions in the images all happen in-camera, as the
image is being recorded without the use of digital manipulations.
Recently, his work has taken a turn away from the purely photographic with the use of iconic imagery
and unconventional media such as his own blood.