Creative Advisor
David Schlosser
David Schlosser's work is guided by a deep belief in personal expression over convention, drawn to the fleeting moments and feelings that carry genuine emotional weight and resist easy explanation. His photography is bold, experimental and strongly narrative, moving fluidly between fine art, mixed media and street-influenced imagery to create work that is layered, psychologically charged and visually striking. There is a consistent fascination with identity, memory and the pressures of modern life running through his images, whether he is working with fragmented portraiture, urban texture or the quiet tension between light and darkness. At its heart, his practice is about finding honesty and connection in the everyday, and sharing that through a visual language that is unmistakably his own.
Showcase
Seven pieces, and what is behind them
Click on the artwork to see it larger, and read David’s own description of each piece.
Work 01
Yellow Tree
The yellow tree serves as a stubborn anchor of warmth and life against a turbulent, fractured backdrop. The textured overlay evokes a sense of isolation and emotional distance, transforming a literal landscape into an internal psychological space. Ultimately, the piece expresses a quiet resilience, the act of holding onto a single, bright truth while everything around it feels hazy and uncertain.
Work 02
No Quarter
The blend of the mundane texture with a fleeting, ghostlike silhouette, intends to transform a routine, everyday moment into a surreal subjective landscape. It captures the isolating weight of routine, the feeling of moving through the world as an anonymous spectator, trapped within a fragmented, distorted memory.
Work 03
The Patron
The patron evokes a sense of being completely consumed by the viewing experience. The creative intent suggests an erasure of the self in the presence of art, where the patron becomes a ghost within the gallery’s internal terrain, momentarily dissolving into the very frames they came to contemplate.
Work 04
Chelsea Train Yard
Chelsea Train Yard is charged with a gritty, chaotic energy that explores the weight of urban routine and industrial uniformity. The rigid, repetitive lines of the train yard suggest a hyper-structured, mechanical reality, but this order is violently disrupted by the aggressive, bleeding textures layered over the scene. The creative intent evokes a sense of claustrophobia, friction, or internal noise, where the clinical monotony of the city's infrastructure collides with a raw, restless emotional undercurrent, transforming a sterile transit hub into a battlefield of the psyche.
Work 05
Drama #3
Drama #3 suggests a mind overwhelmed by sensory overload, consumerism, or instinctual anxieties, where the subject's identity is sliced open and compartmentalised. It evokes a restless, confined emotion, capturing the friction of a psyche trying to find clarity or spiritual escape while trapped inside a noisy, fractured material world.
Work 06
Kids on the Boardwalk
Kids on the boardwalk reflect a carefree summer night into a bittersweet, fading memory of youth. By fracturing the environment around the teenagers and the glowing neon sign, the piece transforms a vibrant, shared moment into a distorted internal terrain. It intends to capture the fleeting nature of adolescence, evoking a quiet melancholy as a seemingly permanent night dissolves into an unreachable, distant past.
Work 07
The Hands That Held You, But Couldn’t Keep You
The mood carries an ache of profound grief, love, and surrender. It's intended to capture the agonising friction of a relationship that has slipped away, evoking a sense of vulnerability, regret, and ultimate forgiveness as the figures seem to simultaneously hold on and dissolve into the dark, chaotic light above them.
In his own words
How David got here
Inspired by the words of French painter Pierre Bonnard, “I do not belong to any school. I am only trying to do something personal,” my work focuses on capturing the fleeting moments and feelings that resonate with me. I aim to create pieces that feel honest and reflective of my own perspective. My art is about finding the beauty and solitude in the everyday, and sharing a sense of connection through the medium of fine art photography.
The path he took
He finished the Masterclass
David completed every workshop in the programme. It begins with Getting Started in Art Photography, which is where all of this starts.
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