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Pat Scanlon - Photographer - Seattle

Over the years, I have been fortunate to have had my work appreciated, collected, and commissioned by clients and organizations like Sports Illustrated, QANTAS, and NIKE. In addition to having multiple solo exhibitions and international awards.

However, I always struggled to balance my creative and analytical sides.

The older I got, the more I learned to harness both aspects of my left brain (logical, analytical, objective) and my right brain (creative, intuitive, instinctual).

This balance has helped me understand more about the intersection of composition & color (or the absence of it), and the most important lesson of all — a greater understanding of every subject I shoot.

I strive to simplify and express this confluence of context, details, and composition in my work.