b. 1992 Winnipeg, Canada

Artist Statement

After moving to Vancouver, BC, Dane began using photography as a means to catalogue and share his new environment with family. He in turn noticed the enlightenment gained from documenting the things he not only saw, but also felt.

For Dane, photography is more than the calm, yet compelling scenes he captures in a frame. While fascinated with his environment, his photos are rarely about what a specific space presents as. Rather, his photography is about what that place can evoke in himself subconsciously. His approach to photography employs this balance of immersing himself in a setting through what he sees externally, while simultaneously looking inward, guided by his thoughts, feelings and memories. To not just look for certain subjects or spaces, but to reflect on how his subconscious interacts with the external world.

Dane’s photography encourages a memory or thought in the viewer, one of which you may not be able to describe or recall with words. The content in his photos are a result of human intervention and decision, despite no humans appearing in the frame. This tension with our surrounding environments, reveals ideas that were once forgotten or unconsidered; the photos themselves become the description of the memory of thought.