Unifying themes in Nicholas Duers' photographic work include minimalism, symmetry, and balance, effectively conveying a simplified sense of perception with sparse presentation.

His work has been in galleries in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Houston, and Rochester, as well as publications such as Photo District News, Petersen's Photographic, and Scopes Magazine.

Statement of Architectural Series

Modern as well as postmodern architecture has been the muse for this series.

Soaring structures of work and play, architecture's reliable, day-in day-out presence in our lives makes them visual monoliths in our urban landscape.  Inhabitants and casual onlookers alike become accustomed to seeing a particular sweep of girders or a splay of tiles as something fixed or background.

While the overall building is what the mind's eye records, the more subtle details that comprise the structure are often compressed in the viewing experince to one composite image.

Nicholas Duers work focuses on the percise intrigue of just these elements.  Imaging first isolates the structure from the topology of its landscape and then focuses on the elements of architectual detail, removing them and us from the distraction of our conditioned sense of form and function.

By these abstractions, the structural components of light, texture, form and line take prominence, allowing distinct, unique patterns to emerge.