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For over twenty years, Gaillard's landscapes have captivated his audience with their unique confluence of atmospheric qualities and technical precision, finding their way into thousands of collections around the world. Rather than relying on iconic elements or tropes, his landscapes evoke the feeling of a place rather than merely representing it. Gaillard's sensitivity to subtle atmospheric shifts and his awareness of the frame create works of lasting beauty, evolving over time, much like one's relationship to these landscapes throughout life.
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IN SITU: PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Over a thousand pieces can be found on the walls of his collectors around the world. Here are a few of them in situ. -
MICHAEL GAILLARD ON PHOTOGRAPHY
My hope is that my images invite the viewer into this process—not just to look, but to look again, both in front of the image and when they return to the world outside.
Photography, for me, is not merely a means of representation but a way of engaging with the world—an act of attention and interpretation. Each image is the result of an extended process of looking, refining, and distilling, shaped by both intention and chance. I am drawn to the places where artifice and nature collide, where perception is complicated rather than resolved. These photographs are not about capturing a static moment but about engaging with the fluid and unstable relationship between seeing and knowing. My hope is that my images invite the viewer into this process-not just to look, but to look again, both in front of the image and when they return to the world outside.
Within the landscapes I photograph, light and atmosphere are not simply compositional elements but forces that shape perception-instinctual, fleeting, and irreducible to fixed meaning. In resisting nostalgia and the pull of the familiar, I seek an image that remains open, one that deepens with time rather than surrendering too easily to recognition. The landscapes I am drawn to exist at the threshold between presence and memory, holding space for the elements, the subtleties, the quiet gestures of nature and chance that influence how we see, feel, and remember.
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ABSTRACTIONS
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Golden Hills and Pacific Horizons
Though born on the East Coast, Gaillard's formative years were spent between the contrasting landscapes of Nantucket and California—one characterized by its subtle beauty, the other by a grandeur that almost eludes capture. -
Nantucket skies
These atmospheric abstractions embody the essence of what makes Nantucket singularly transcendent. -
Borderless Horizons
This collection spans the breadth of Gaillard's landscape work organized formally rather than geographically.
