About Yves Rubin | Photography
I was born in Switzerland and eventually moved to Los Angeles to obtain a Ph.D. in chemistry. In addition to science, I have had a passion for the arts since my childhood, all of which have led me to pursue photography as a means of expressing and developing my creativity.
I am highly visual and tend to look at the world with an analytical mind, one that harmonizes forms or colors. Most of us live in a world saturated with visual noise coming from all sorts of objects, colors, letters, still images, moving images; yet not many of us take the time to integrate the beauty and harmony through what we are seeing around us. Finding simplicity in an anarchical hierarchy of forms, colors, or shapes helps us elevate our mind and purify our analytical thoughts towards reaching a meditative state. This is why abstract painters like Mark Rothko, Franz Klein, or Pierre Soulages have always resonated with me. Their work expresses a higher sense of being, an awareness of what one can call spirituality. With the work displayed here, I hope to be able contribute to this goal to a small degree.
The immediate feedback of the digital camera was a revelation to me since its inception. My interpretation of the world became a reflection of what my eyes saw with little apparent effort. Yet, like achieving a meditative state, it is the moment that matters and not the effort or technique. Even then, reaching such a state often requires a lifetime of growing and detaching oneself from the comfortable mental anchors we tend to bear.
We all live through our senses, and our souls are shaped by the harmony of colors in nature and in our everyday surroundings. After all, light brought us to life.
I am highly visual and tend to look at the world with an analytical mind, one that harmonizes forms or colors. Most of us live in a world saturated with visual noise coming from all sorts of objects, colors, letters, still images, moving images; yet not many of us take the time to integrate the beauty and harmony through what we are seeing around us. Finding simplicity in an anarchical hierarchy of forms, colors, or shapes helps us elevate our mind and purify our analytical thoughts towards reaching a meditative state. This is why abstract painters like Mark Rothko, Franz Klein, or Pierre Soulages have always resonated with me. Their work expresses a higher sense of being, an awareness of what one can call spirituality. With the work displayed here, I hope to be able contribute to this goal to a small degree.
The immediate feedback of the digital camera was a revelation to me since its inception. My interpretation of the world became a reflection of what my eyes saw with little apparent effort. Yet, like achieving a meditative state, it is the moment that matters and not the effort or technique. Even then, reaching such a state often requires a lifetime of growing and detaching oneself from the comfortable mental anchors we tend to bear.
We all live through our senses, and our souls are shaped by the harmony of colors in nature and in our everyday surroundings. After all, light brought us to life.