Photography · Chicago

Fine Art

Beauty in collapse and renewal.

Photocredit- Blue study #4, © 2026 Daniel Giordan

I photograph dried flowers and rotting fruit on black—forms at the point where structure starts to give way. Most of the work is still life in the Weston tradition: surface, shadow, decay. A separate series names each piece for someone I lost. The names carry the memorial.

Projects

Two bodies of work—elegies for real people, and botanical studies after Weston.

Elegies — Donald

Memorial still lifes

Elegies

Each photograph is named for a real person—withered flowers and rotting fruit as memorial.

After Weston — Backlit Iris

Botanical still life

After Weston

Dried organic forms on black—lit for surface, shadow, and the life left in decay.