IRIE

Dallas Hyatt has an eye for the usual: the things we walk by every day without ever noticing. Dallas trains his lens on San Francisco, where he sets about cataloging the very fabric and patterns of daily life. At his feet, the city offers up all the urban elements to catch his eye: architecture, window reflections, street art, people, light and shadow, advertisements; a visual juxtaposition of urban life. His lens thrives uninhibited in that urban environment, drawn to shooting what he refers to as “Urban Abstracts.” He claims to “photograph absolutely everything” while pushing perspectives into uncomfortable territory. Through the interpretation of his lens, we rediscover the familiar, as through a window to a parallel reality of art reflecting life. All of Dallas’ photographs are single-exposure originals – no Photoshop, no layers, and no effects. The images you see are as he captured them through the lens.