Personal work / Mike Loerop
Fieldwork.
Photography that has nothing to sell. These are the images I make because I need to make them — in marshes before sunrise, on city blocks I don't know, in light that won't wait.
"The same eye. A different subject. Work done for its own sake."
Fieldwork is where I practice. Not for clients — for craft. Everything you see here feeds back into how I photograph weddings, and into a longer project about what it means to photograph a life.
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The Work
Wildlife
Animals in their element. Patience as a practice. The moment before and the moment after.
Coming soon
Street
Cities as living systems. Geometry, light, and the stranger passing through the frame.
Coming soon
Black & White
Stripped of color, what remains is structure and feeling. A different way of seeing.
Coming soon
Travel
Unfamiliar places, unfamiliar light. The discipline of seeing somewhere new.
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The photographer
Mike Loerop
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina. I photograph weddings professionally and everything else obsessively. Fieldwork is where the two sides of that meet — a record of what it looks like when the camera is mine alone.