HILLARY CLEMENTS
Daily Practice
The Essence of Yoga
My practice of photography and yoga began when I was 19 after enrolling in a couple of classes for college credit. Since then, my love and exploration of both has continued to grow throughout my life. This series of images, created using a 1980’s Hasselblad camera and 120mm B&W film, is a photographic meditation on the ritual of yoga created with friends who practice yoga daily. This medium requires me to slow down, connect and observe their gestures, creating an impression of the mind, body and spiritual connection that occurs during the experience of yoga.
Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory is a branch of science based on the Law of Sensitive Dependency. Rooted in quantum theory and relativity its main premise states that small changes in initial conditions could result in vast differences in the final outcome. Nature adapts to conditions in the simplest way even though the underlying system may seem complex. Chaos Theory includes concepts such as fractals, the butterfly effect and the Fibonacci sequence, revealing itself as patterns in nature, weather conditions and even human behavior.
I approach this series of in-camera multiple exposures looking for geometric patterns in nature and thinking about symbiotic relationships. I compose many of these images by combining lenses of different ratios or by rotating the camera at specific angles that correlate to the Golden Mean. By exploring these concepts and playing with the natural world in this way I am able to discover the beauty of the unpredictable. This has become my way of finding comfort amidst the chaos.
~ Hillary Clements
About The Photographer
Hillary Clements resides in the beautiful Hudson Valley of New York. She was raised in NYC and has lived most of her life in the Mountains of Oregon.
Compelled to see the world and immerse herself into nature over the last 25 years, Hillary has taken her camera through the wilderness, under the water and above the clouds.
Earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Photography with a minor in Zoology, she started her career working for local, national and global nonprofit environmental organizations on issues surrounding logging, habitat, water and wildlife.
Her roots in the darkroom led her to become a custom B&W printer and a teacher of photography in order to inspire other analog, digital and mixed media photographers.
Hillary has won numerous awards, grants and scholarships. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions around the globe, including Barcelona, Spain, Guatemala and The United States. Her work has been published in National Geographic Traveler, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Black & White Magazine and many other print and online presentations.