While Jeremy Blakeslee would tell you that he looks for inspiration in dark, isolated spaces, some of his colleagues disagree. "His photographs have enchanted me," says Italian photographer Patrizia Burra. "He knows how to charm you with light." The bright spaces in his photographs—a shaft of dusty daylight through a broken window, the crack of sun beyond a crumbling wall—hint at a world that has forgotten the atrophied interior landscapes and industrial machinery that in their heyday raced and roared. Whether it’s a broken down locomotive or an abandoned steel mill, Blakeslee’s photographs elegantly capture a point in time beyond which frenetic motion suddenly stopped, and the slow and deliberate march of deterioration began. Blakeslee’s eye is a crucible that takes the play between stillness and motion, light and dark, and lost and found to transform his subjects, reframing and repurposing their raw strength.

"He has the capacity to translate the mundane and static into the visually stunning and vibrant," says Rod Gutierrez-Hood. "His compositional skills are remarkable." Blakeslee holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and has shown his art work in various locations such as Brooklyn’s Instigator gallery, Meat Market Magazine (www.meatmarketmagazine.com), and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASSMoca)