Aaron Nace

My name is Aaron Nace and I am a photographer and digital artist based out of Chapel Hill, NC. My main focus with my work is portraiture, and I try to create images that are more than just technically well done, I want them to impact the viewer emotionally. I am very much into creating images using all the tools available, including lighting, costuming, set design, and post production. I aim to have my images stand out from the crowd and bring about original concepts, and am always evolving my style to do so.

I am currently involved in what is known as the "365 days" project, basically the idea is that I take a photo of myself every day for a year. Within this project I have started other projects, I have done the "Seven deadly sins" with my girlfriend and photographer Rosie Hardy. Another project is my Artist Tribute project.

I started the Artist Tribute series for a couple of reasons. The first being that others' art plays a large influence on my own, and I decided I would take a group of artists who are the most influential towards my art, and see what I could learn from them.

I wanted to emulate their styles for both technical reasons as well as artistic reasons. Technically I could learn from different generations of thought as far as lighting and image quality is concerned. Artistically, I truly learned to value many images I previously had little regard for. The project really helped me to understand why some images are more successful than others, and the fact that most of the artists I studied were not photographers made me realize that different mediums actually have a lot more in common than I once thought.