Ernest Cadegan

About the Artist:

In the early 90s Ernest picked up a camera again and began making photographs but it was not until he became involved with a Buddhist approach to photography known as Miksang that a camera became so integrated into his life. While Miksang continues to be a strong influence in how he sees, other photographic styles also now animate his approach to making images.

Photography for Ernest is a powerful tool for appreciating not only the essence of the world around him but also the transitory nature of it. He doesn’t always understand why he is attracted to make the type of images he does. Mostly they are calm and precise. When they really work well they can have a poetic feel to them. When he doesn’t have a camera in his hand, he is a good deal less orderly and settled, and decidedly not poetic.

Ernest carries a camera with him almost everywhere he goes and tries to see and make photos every day. When images do not make themselves available to him, there is a certain emptiness that accompanies the realization that it was a perceptually dull day.

He enjoys the process of having a perception, framing it in the viewfinder and clicking the shutter that is stimulating enough to motivate him to continue to visually examine his world. He can find it particularly exhilarating when very special perceptions occur and are accompanied by the knowledge that without a photographic mindset those moments would simply have escaped his attention.

Ernest’s work has been described as “ orderly, bold, elegant, graphical.” Composition (more particularly simplicity and graphic construction) is the single most important element of his process. It shapes how he sees.

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