If the search for beauty reflects an aspiration to many of us, for Bill Phelps, it is his life's meaning. Bill is not only capable of finding beauty in every place and every moment, he creates it into and out of a transformative process that draws fully from the love of the human body, of everything mechanical, of abstractism when needed to tell a story and of lights and colors when the story forms itself through the lens. He always digs deep in his soul to form the next image as he aligns his emotional frequencies with those of his art observers'. Even more so in MOTOGRAPHIKA, where the rawness of the approach calls for a meditative state while composing the frame, as Bill once told me, like building and riding a classic motorcycle.

– Pier Francesco Verlato / Rust and Glory

Series I

Vintage Polaroid

For the better part of 20 years Phelps maintained the use of large format Polaroid film. This unique process shot on an 8 x 10 rosewood Deardorff camera, produced a particularly poetic view.

11 x 14 inches beautifully offset printed on 100lb Cougar Natural White fine art paper.

Includes a Signed Certificate of Authenticity.
Free U.S. domestic delivery.

Photo @kyleramseymoe

“His photography is like that. It has no hurried departure, nor a preconceived destination. It’s more like a wondrous path in which spontaneity, intimacy and a truthful eye are at play, time and again. It’s about discovery, letting something unfold, full of the unexpected, but always looking for what’s genuine and real, and relating to people, to the human part of people.”

– Ada Pîrvu / Classiq Journal

FROM THE STUDIO OF BILL PHELPS

www.billphelps.com