Scott Adams once boldly stated, "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep". It can be said that that is how David Kaminsky brought about a revolutionary new series of photographs that changes our perception of what a photograph is.

Kaminsky, a native of Miami, Florida, received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of Florida and has worked as a staff photographer for the Historic Preservation Section of Georgia's Department of Natural Resources. It was in 1980, that David and his wife Betsy moved to Savannah, where David taught photography at Savannah College of Art and Design. And in 1982 he started Savannah Color Separations, Inc., providing color separations for printers and publishers. Since then the business has expanded into high resolution digital photography and giclee printing for local and regional artists.

This series of abstracted photos was inspired a few years ago by a problem that would occasionally occur when printing with large format ink-jet printers. Instead of each pass of the print-head revealing a bit more of an image, at some point the printer would repeat the same line of pixels over and over, essentially taking a tiny bit of visual information, stretching and magnifying it in one direction. Even though there was minimal visual information the resulting image always had a strong relationship to the image that had spawned it. More importantly, the images were sometimes quite beautiful. And so Kaminsky decided that he could use this technique to create an image that while it has minimal visual information still reveals an essential part of the scene. Even though the photographs only have one pixel worth of information in any one direction they still function as some sort of true representation of their subject.

For David Kaminsky, complete and thorough knowledge of the technology that he works with every day has inspired in him the creative process and generated an art form previously unexplored.