CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY
David Deighton’s Photography Practice
Early Photography in Paris
David Deighton’s artistic path began in adolescence through photography while living in Paris, first using a Nikon F1 and later a Canon AE-1.
Abstract Photography and Everyday Perception
Early photographic work focused on abstraction—light, shadow, and the overlooked edges of everyday life.
From Analog Photography to Painting
Environmental Awareness and Material Shift
Over time, growing environmental awareness around the chemicals and resource demands of analog photography led Deighton to step away from the medium and turn toward painting.
Expanding Beyond Traditional Photography
This transition marked a broader exploration of abstraction, material process, and visual perception across artistic forms.
iPhone Photography and Contemporary Image-Making
Capturing Peripheral Moments and Distortions
Years later, photography returned through the immediacy of the iPhone camera, becoming a tool for capturing fleeting details, distortions, and panoramic fragments.
Between Documentation and Perception
The images hover between documentation and abstraction, exploring how perception shifts through framing, movement, and digital mediation.
Video Art and Triptych Dialogue
Photography and Political Conversation
Video extends this photographic practice, forming a visual counterpart to the Triptych Dialogue interviews where imagery and conversation intersect.
Contemporary Art Through Observation
Photography remains an impulse—a way of noticing and capturing what briefly appears in the margins of daily experience.
The Non-Space of Everyday Life
Photography as Attention and Inquiry
The work explores what Deighton describes as the “non-space” of everyday life: peripheral moments that often go unseen or unexamined.
Selected Works and Ongoing Series
Here are selected works from one ongoing photographic series.
Related Projects:
Land Skeins
Explore distorted landscape imagery examining movement, abstraction, perception, and sensory experience within natural environments.
Art Flow
View experimental visual works combining abstraction, movement, distortion, and layered digital transformation.
U.S. Border Wall
A series of short experimental films examining division, perception, constructed realities, and geopolitical boundaries through the symbolic lens of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
Views from the Cave
Explore experimental media projects examining digital perception, abstraction, social media environments, and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
100 Views from the Cave
A meditative abstract art film exploring perception, digital culture, political polarization, and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave through projection, distortion, and experimental moving image.