The artwork: Hollis Bennett describes himself as “a body in motion” all of his life. He moved with his family out of Tennessee before he was a year old, only to return in the last couple of years after having covered hundreds of thousands of miles throughout the world. He observes that this constant travel and motion have been a way of life for him, influencing every image he makes. His landscapes represent his singular vision—that is, to observe the interaction of the natural and built environments. As a result, he produces large-scale landscape images in color that are rich, broad, and haunting. His smaller black and white images are more intimate in scale, scope and technique.
The artist: Bennett studied photography at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and at the Art Institute of Colorado in Denver. On his return to Nashville, he established his own commercial and art photography business. His goal is to produce exemplary fine art, travel and documentary work that all fits together as the same body of work. His plan is to spend a year traveling through the U.S., Canada, Mexico and overseas carefully observing and documenting what he sees photographically that is distinctive about the 21st century landscape.
