CANDELAR 2022: CANTOBER
OCTOBER FEATURE:
Ross Gerhold’s Cantober feature in the Candelar 2022
The featured image for Cantober is ZITS by Richmond cinematographer and photographer, Ross Gerhold.
Ross Gerhold, born into a railroad family in 1993 in Scottsbluff, NE, was raised in Wyoming, and eventually Virginia. His work explores anxiety, disassociation, and the seemingly staged environments of our world, is naturally influenced by his upbringing and adolescent experiences. Gerhold examines today’s societal decay in tandem with the terrestrial beauty of the American South, but truly wherever he catches glimpses of personal and emotionally nostalgic scenes in the everyday world.
Ross Gerhold, ZITS, 2021.
With a background in cinema work and an emphasis on manipulating light, Gerhold’s photography pays homage to the fundamentals of organic lighting techniques and compositional elements seen in filmmaking, frozen in a photograph, in the existing world.
