Between 2005 and 2007 Patrick traveled the country in a small two seat R22 helicopter and an RV. With one other photographer and a pilot, he was hired to photograph every marina, lighthouse, harbor, and inlet in North America. While photographing the clients targets, he was determined to make the most of his time in the air and capture a more meaningful view of the changing landscape and our interaction with it. His photographs challenge the viewers sense of perspective and space and present to them what they have seen before in a new light.
Patrick Allen is an art history and philosophy major from the St. Mary’s College of MD. He interned at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens photography department. He was the chief aerial photographer for a boating & GPS company, which allowed him to travel the U.S. and Canada and served as the photo editor for the same company. He has worked as a photography assistant for photographers in the D.C. area, while developing his own creative fine art photography. Patrick currently works at Ken Allen Digital where the focus is on fine art pigment ink prints and digitization of photographic collections.
