I am Adam Shurte, a disabled photographer and art student out of the Richmond VA area. This is where I house my portfolios.
As I am disabled, I do not work professionally, though I am working at education, training, and re-entering the workforce should my health allow it in the future. Likewise, I do not currently sell prints or any merchandise, and I am not available for any commercial work or works. Some or all of that may or may not change in the future.
Art is therapy to me, and I've done and needed to do a lot of it over the years. As of now I'm probably best with a camera, but I do work in other creative media from time to time; of that, some of my other visual art is also on display here, as will be some amount of writing.
I find my photographic work primarily through serendipity. I have fairly incurable restlessness and wanderlust. I don't feel right if I'm not physically moving around for some reason, so I tend to wander with my camera in search of striking imagery. I started by working in traditional photography- and the bulk of my work still is just that, in color or monochrome- but eventually learned to experiment with photomanipulation work, where I use images I have taken and heavily edit them to varying effects. Most of my work in photography and photomanipulation tends to have a Gothic and Otherworldly look to it.
My paintings, on the other hand, range from abstract experiments with alcohol ink to computer made fractals (I use Chaotica 2 to make mine). There's also an array of automatic drawings I've done in the past year or so. I do hand draw them in Photoshop using a stylus, and all of the above forms of abstracts usually get retouched using Photoshop after completion. As of now a selection of my automatic paintings and my fractals (but none of my traditional work) are up for viewing.
For what it's worth, I do not use AI in my work or generate imagery with AI for an array of reasons.
Anyway, feel free to look around and enjoy the site. If you'd like to contact me I am reachable via email using the contact form.
-Adam Shurte, June 2024
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