Photography
Joshua Weiss
New to Spring 2025!
Dallas, TX
Booth 526
Featured Artist
My work is inspired by the quiet power of nature — the way light moves through a forest, the stillness of dawn, or the vast silence of an open landscape. I’m drawn to moments that make you stop and breathe, the fleeting scenes that remind us of our place within something much greater. My goal as a fine art landscape photographer is simple yet ambitious: to recreate those moments exactly as they would have been experienced in person — not through the camera’s limitations, but as the human eye perceives them in full depth, light, and emotion.
To achieve this, I combine technical mastery with artistic patience. Using photo stitching, focus stacking, bracketing, blending, and long exposures, I build images that reveal every subtle detail of a scene — often merging more than 100 photographs into a single composition of up to 500 megapixels. Each piece takes hours in the field and days in post-processing, resulting in a final image that is both faithful and breathtaking.
Recently, I’ve developed a new approach to how my work is displayed — one that brings an even greater sense of realism and presence. My newest pieces are printed on Dibond aluminum, but I’ve introduced a layered texturing process that gives each print a tactile, 3D effect. Different finishes are applied across the surface — a glossy shimmer on water, a satin glow on sky, or a fine matte on rock and foliage — allowing the artwork to change with the light and the viewer’s angle. It’s a living image: one that moves, shifts, and breathes.
This evolution in my technique reflects the same inspiration that drives my photography — to not just capture nature, but to feel it. Through this new method of presentation, I aim to bridge the gap between image and experience, inviting viewers to step into the landscape and see the world as I saw it in that exact moment.
My work has undergone a major evolution due to a new textured printing process I recently developed. After years of refining my photographic techniques in the field through stitching, focus stacking, bracketing, blending, and long exposures, I realized the printing stage needed to match the depth and realism I put into capturing each scene. That breakthrough led me to create a completely new, layered texturing method on aluminum that, as far as I’m aware, no other photographer in the country is doing.
This process has genuinely transformed my artwork. By applying different textures and finishes to specific elements within the image, the landscapes take on a dimensional, almost sculptural quality. Water reflects differently than sky, rock feels distinct from foliage, and light interacts with the surface in a way that shifts as the viewer moves. The result is an immersive experience that bridges the gap between photography and physical presence — something traditional prints simply cannot achieve.
This new technique has revolutionized my artistic approach, allowing the painstaking work I put into each photograph to be fully realized in its final form. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to recreating the feeling of standing inside the landscape itself.