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Norm Halm |
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I graduated from the Ohio Institute of Photography and Technology in Dayton, Ohio with an associate’s degree in commercial photography. I was awarded with the Outstanding Portfolio Award for the class of 1997. In October of 1997, I moved to San Francisco on a Greyhound Bus with very few belongings. I began working as a freelance assistant and black & white printer for commercial photography studios. From 1998 to 2005 I was apprentice to Daniel Nicoletta. From 2002 to 2005 I also assisted Said Nuseibeh. In August of 2005, fellow photographer Keith Gidlund and I opened our own studio and darkroom as the exclusive printers for Ruth Bernhard. I have also done freelance commercial photography and sell my fine art prints to private collectors. I’ve exhibited my work in several group and solo exhibits including Geras Tousignant Gallery, Focus Gallery, Catherine Clark Gallery, Arlequin Garden Room Gallery, Toledo Ohio Art Museum, G&P Oz Café, Borders Books & Music, and Tea & Co., World Tea House.
Artist’s Statement I am fascinated by humanity’s desire to understand and explain the reality of our physical world. Religion, Philosophy, Science and Art relentlessly offer evolving theories and paradigms of thought. I have chosen to participate in this dialogue by using the visual language of photography. I make a photograph without acknowledging the ephemeral states of space, gravity or time. I conceive my images as though the objects spring from pure blackness, spontaneously and beautifully. I deify the subject and empathize with its timeless nature. Photography is a unique art form. Just as life on our planet is impossible without light, photography can’t exist without light. It is the essence that sculpts and reveals beauty, animating the living energy in all things. I want light to course through the subject with the life force of blood coursing through my veins. By allowing photography to be a passage to a heightened awareness, it becomes a vehicle towards transcendence. |
I was born in 1976 in Fremont, Ohio. My romance with photography began at age eight when I received a Fischer Price camera as a gift. I decided to make photography my career during my first photography class in high school. I immediately began assisting local portrait photographers and attended summer courses at the Winona International School of Professional Photography in Chicago, Illinois.