Photography
Mitch Wright has been a
photographer longer than his pursuits as a landscape architect and city planner. As the son
of a photographer, Mr. Wright took up the camera around 12 years old and began to record and
explore the world around him with black and white film. Through high school and college this
activity became more serious with photographing landscapes and architecture leading up to
early exhibitions and competition awards during his college years.
1n 1986 at Texas A&M University, Mr. Wright accomplished an undergraduate degree in Landscape Architecture; in 1997 he finished a Masters in the same at Harvard Graduate School of Design. It was the time at Harvard that brought together the photography and the design as the method of comprehensive study for the built environment. The community vitality project continues to this day and as a lifetime commitment to research. Currently Mr. Wright lives in Austin, Texas where he practices as a private consultant and uses photography in his practice to reveal the nuances of city spatial qualities as well as investigations of personal expression. Mosaic and sequential photography has been a useful tool for Mr. Wright to stimulate understanding in community form relationships. The repetitive nature of many of the constructions accentuates the relationships and adds a heightened sense of social and architectural interaction. This dynamic creates for the viewer a drama that forces the understanding of form and social details and relationships within the work.
1n 1986 at Texas A&M University, Mr. Wright accomplished an undergraduate degree in Landscape Architecture; in 1997 he finished a Masters in the same at Harvard Graduate School of Design. It was the time at Harvard that brought together the photography and the design as the method of comprehensive study for the built environment. The community vitality project continues to this day and as a lifetime commitment to research. Currently Mr. Wright lives in Austin, Texas where he practices as a private consultant and uses photography in his practice to reveal the nuances of city spatial qualities as well as investigations of personal expression. Mosaic and sequential photography has been a useful tool for Mr. Wright to stimulate understanding in community form relationships. The repetitive nature of many of the constructions accentuates the relationships and adds a heightened sense of social and architectural interaction. This dynamic creates for the viewer a drama that forces the understanding of form and social details and relationships within the work.
The City
Photography allows me to compare
and reveal relationships of value; conditions conducive to the
forming of livable built environments that make up our communities.
Understanding the drivers of our social response in architectural
form, and how function and form intertwine with social structures,
helps me to understand the models that give life and health to a
community.
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Tattoos & Graffiti
Urban art is an expression
of our society reaching out with acts of personal gestures and
connections; statements of connection, power, ownership, heritage,
emotions; bound up in paint and constructions personalizing our
spaces in the city. Tattoos are more personal messages of
experience, memory, commemoration, and maybe membership.
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Guatemala
This
project is about our cultural place-making and how we have lost our
way in crafting our built space. It is important to understand that
there is a deep relationship between the built community and the
social community. Careful craft and social relationships are
disintegrating in our modern society and through photography, I try
to identify the special components and relationships that are to be
found in rural Guatemala.
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