Robert Mack is a Los Angeles and Paris based visual artist working in a wide range of media including fine art photography, filmmaking, video installations and painting.
In his ongoing project titled the Wrapped series, he covers subjects with sheer material creating intimate, beautiful and emotional artwork that examines themes of dreams, sleep, beauty, death, even transcendence. Where Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped primarily buildings, Mack wraps people. Early images were taken on his bed, yet remain innocent and playful in the artist’s vision. All of his other work is created at sunrise, out in the silent Southern California high desert where the early light on the flat horizon allows for magic to happen.
He uses both digital and old school film mediums, creating images that remain pure as they are not manipulated with digital effects technology. During a session, he uses only nature’s available light and swirls the sheer material to in a way “paint“ his subjects with resulting work that looks more like paintings than traditional photography. Robert’s photographs capture a moment of experience that reveals an inner deeper nature and asks us to reconsider them again and again.
“To me, there is nothing more interesting to photograph than the human face and form. A subject and photographer can enter into an unspoken pact and when this occurs the resulting image has the potential to transcend the two participants.“ – Robert Mack
