“Finding photography was like getting on a horse that promptly ran away with me on a great adventure. It took me across the world, into prisons, up the Himalayas, into the fighting in Northern Ireland, to Greece, to Egypt, to Mexico and Cuba.
But the greatest adventure was into my own mind and imagination, and it resulted in the work of The Secret Books. It let me make books, if not exactly write them, that pointed to all of the Mysteries of Life, Death and the Universe. Needless to say, I don’t begin to fully understand Life, Death and the Universe, but I feel their mystery, and so I took my clue from my collaborator, the great Jorge Luis Borges, who found it easier to write reviews of imaginary books than to write the actual books themselves.
So these pictures of books, invoke books, as yet unwritten.
And so, I realize, are the forest photographs in another book, Among Trees. They were taken in specific woods, but I was always looking for something archetypal, and in the end it was the sequence and the journey that was important, not the individual trees. This is as much a walk in the imagination as it is in the woods.
So what I have learned in my photography is that the spirited horse of the imagination is not to be tamed, but encouraged to run away.” — August, 2004

Sean Kernan currently resides in the sleepy and enchanting Connecticut shoreline town of Stony Creek. He is a fine art photographer, a commercial photographer, a teacher, a writer, a lecturer and the recipient of many awards for his imaginative and compelling photography. He has participated in dozens of solo and group exhibitions worldwide.

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