Mark Citret’s poetic imagery bridges the tradition of landscape photography and a contemporary documentary style. The artist prints on a difficult to source vellum-like paper using a special dual-toning process in which he added different chemical toners to accentuate light and shadow in his black-and-white prints, creating a more vibrant, stylized effect and a sense of warmth. Since the early 1990s, he has consistently carried a 35mm camera, using it to capture fleeting images of his surroundings. Citret finds beauty in ordinary, human-altered spaces: construction sites, forgotten city corners, and everyday scenes that most people walk past. “If I hold any convictions at all as a photographer, foremost among them would be the belief that there are pictures lurking everywhere. They are concealed and camouflaged in the landscape that surrounds us, whether urban, rural, wild, or cultivated. The trick is finding those pictures. It is all the more difficult because they are right in front of us all the time. My experience has taught me that when I allow myself to drift in ‘autopilot,’ divorced from all my preferences, expectations, and judgments, my eye will eventually settle on some familiar scene, never quite seen before.”