04/20/2025
In his photographs, Joseph Akerman captures light energy as it reflects upon a variety of fluid surfaces. He attempts to distill moments when the quality of light energy is most visible, frozen in reflections caught within the endlessly changing watery surfaces. Strongly motivated by the energy and ephemerality that he sees in the work of Ikezaki and Ando, Akerman’s abstract photography endeavors to pictorialize ki. Of late, Akerman has been experimenting with adding various precious metals to his photographs to enhance their emphasis on reflectiveness
—Hollis Goodall