UpperCut Images, an exclusive rights-protected stock photography agency owned by royalty-free stock photo agency PunchStock, proudly announces the addition of yet another elite photographer to its roster of top shooters. UpperCut Images welcomes photographer Spike Mafford to its growing group of distinguished and accomplished photographers contributing to the UpperCut Images collection of high-end rights-protected imagery.
Spike Mafford married his passions for travel and art into a twenty-year photography career that’s taken him around the globe shooting scenery, destinations and local culture. Mafford shoots not with the eye of a travel photographer building a travelogue but rather with the zeal of a storyteller discovering universal truths. His fine arts background and technical precision translate into images with an ethereal, transcendent quality. His imagery, while expertly crafted, often appears effortless, caught in a fleeting, magical moment as opposed to a studio set-up.
Mafford’s intimately impulsive approach fits perfectly with the freedom and personal attention UpperCut Images affords its photographers. UpperCut’s genuine desire to support a core of artists rather than focus on mass quantity is what attracted the Spike Mafford to the agency. “UpperCut Images seeks the artist and the art within,” said Mafford. “My best work comes from personal inspiration. If I don’t care about the images I’m making, it shows. UpperCut has offered me the flexibility to continue to create using a more personal process.”
Mafford’s unique approach of deliberate and demiurgic documentation is precisely what attracted UpperCut Images to the photographer and his work. “Spike Mafford prefers to study rather than control situations when creating his imagery,” noted Vice President of Creative Strategy Benjamin Winters. “He is a true observer of life with a knack for grabbing those shots that are absolutely in the moment. This trademark approach lends an authenticity rarely found elsewhere in commercial photography.
The Seattle-based photographer has been garnering gallery acclaim, with a solo or group show – often featuring images of his Asian or Central American journeys – for nearly every year of his expansive career. This summer, Seattle’s Harborview Hospital will display Mafford’s intriguing fine arts series “Images for the Blind,” a sensory exhibit that unites photographic imagery, poetry and Braille, encouraging blind and seeing audiences to experience photography in radical new ways. The father of twins and husband to filmmaker/ producer Lisa Dutton is also planning a six-month trip abroad.
To view a gallery of Spike Mafford’s UpperCut Images contributions, visit: https://www.uppercutimages.com/store/photographers/mafford/
See work by more award-winning UpperCut Images contributors, including Dave Nagel, Mark Hooper, Chase Jarvis, Darryl Estrine and Charlie Schuck by visiting:
https://www.uppercutimages.com/store/photographers/
About UpperCut Images
UpperCut Images is a premier rights-protected stock photography agency specializing in high-end commercial stock photography by top photographers. UpperCut Images is the sister company of royalty-free stock provider PunchStock. UpperCut Images markets its imagery to art buyers, creative directors and designers and aids in the licensing, production and sales of the collection. For more information about UpperCut Images, please visit: www.uppercutimages.com
This article was last modified on March 30, 2022
This article was first published on May 17, 2006
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