Hokusai says look carefully
He says pay attention, notice
He says keep looking, stay curious
He says there is no end to seeing…
From Hokusai Says, by Roger Keyes
Artist’s Statement
To see the world is to look past its definitions. For me, the camera is a method of stripping away clinical detail to expose the quiet, underlying geometry of feeling and existence. By softening the sharp edges of distance and letting the immediate world dissolve into shapes, tones, and light, these frames capture a universe structured not by events, but by form.
The master printmaker Hokusai said that everything has a life of its own—the dragon, the chicory, the dragonfly, the grass. He reminded us to look, feel, let life take you by the hand, and above all, to be grateful for everything. Across four distinct movements, this portfolio traces that exact, low-frequency mindfulness—the quiet coordinates where human presence, structural lines, and light converge.
Form First
The manifesto of pure abstraction. Hokusai said it matters that you care, and here, that care is channeled entirely into the clean alignment of geometric compositions. Narrative and social commentary are deliberately cast aside. Instead, human subjects dissolve into striking silhouettes, vertical axes, and sweeping curves, transforming the mundane details of everyday environments into a rhythmic study of organic frequencies. It is an intentional return to the foundational language of vision—where I let a shadow or a line take absolute precedence over a story.
Unfinished Stories
The threshold of the unresolved. Captured from unobtrusive, non-standard angles, these images inhabit the spaces between actions. They reward the viewer who engages deeply with the frame, pulling focus onto subtle, fleeting details—the slow drip of water in a quiet cafe, a suspended gesture, a sudden pause. These are visual fragments intentionally left open, invitations to sit within an incomplete thought that refuses to demand a neat conclusion.
Photographs of Other People’s Memories
An architecture built from coordinates that no longer belong to anyone. This sequence maps the intimate, fading remnants of shared spaces and discarded artifacts. It watches as the fluid, rhythmic currents of a daily commute abruptly snap into friction, or as a vibrant afternoon fractures a permanent stone landscape into a thousand temporary pieces. These frames hold the exact, lingering shape of human presence, captured mere moments before a lived conversation slips forever into a recollection.
Spaces of Our Own
A narrative arc of structural containment and geometric expansion. This gallery explores both the physical and psychological boundaries we build and inhabit, tracing the lines where public architecture interfaces with deeply personal isolation. Moving systematically through rigid enclosures and compressed urban grids, the sequence gradually breathes outward into open space, culminating in a delicate, self-referential shadow signature—a quiet acknowledgment of the observer waiting at the edge of the frame.
What remains across these galleries is a singular, rhythmic dialogue between the permanent and the fleeting. These are monuments to the spaces, objects, and thresholds we leave behind—flattened into monochrome, warmed by slow transitions into color, and suspended in the quiet interval before the world shifts again.
Steven Anthony, Torino, Italy, 2026
About the Artist:
Steven spent his early years in Buffalo, New York, and attended university there. He learned a lot about photography, and art in general, from his sister who studied and later taught art.
Steven did his own darkroom work and printed photographs from film, starting in high school in the 1970s through 2001, moving his equipment from Buffalo to Chicago and then on to Minneapolis. As digital photography became more viable in terms of image quality, Steven moved away from film and adapted to the digital darkroom.
Steven had a long career in marketing and advertising, including running his own consulting firm for 20 years. During that time, he did some fashion and product photography in addition to his own landscape and cityscape photographic work.
Now, Steven is retired and lives in Torino, Italy, with his wife, Silvia. After a 10-year hiatus from photography, Steven has returned to making photographs with a focus on fine-art street, architectural, and abstract photography.
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