Jesse Rinyu is a creative professional living and working in Philadelphia, PA. He's been a featured artist in the Philadelphia City Paper, Juxtapoz Magazine, and many other publications. During the worst of the pandemic, he built a woodshop that is now making furniture, instruments, and anything else he can think up!
Jesse has over twenty years of experience in graphic and web design, print production, and industrial grand format design, including some rather large projects involving trade show and museum installations.
Currently, his pet projects are music and fabrication, with a leaning toward woodworking.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My goal is a selfish one; to capture contrasts, whether it be contrasting colors, themes or shapes and the emotions they carry with them. Have you ever witnessed a color or a smell and had it trigger a sharp emotional reaction? That’s what I hope to achieve here. A scavenger hunt for feelings.
Photography, for me, is as much about the mechanical aspect as it the aesthetic one. I enjoy taking thoughtful, deliberate photographs with cameras that have been discarded or forgotten. These are cameras that I can repair, use and give value to that were once forgotten. Living by the code of the racoon.