Larry Cwik is a Portland, Oregon based fine art photographer who travels widely and sometimes internationally for his work.  Notable projects to date include: The Visitor: 25 Years Photographing Mexico, for which Cwik has spent a total of six months in Mexico to date, walking 900 miles through the streets of dozens of large Mexican cities, capturing their magic in color photographs, and letting his subconscious influence where and when he photographs; Totems, poetic and contemporary stacked triptychs of black and white photographs, gelatin silver prints inspired by the imagery, stories, and legends of the Totem Poles of the Pacific Northwest Coast First Peoples; Morocco; Antarctica/Greenland; and Industrial Districts, inspired by Cwik’s life-long fascination with industry, developed as a child growing up in Pittsburgh.

Cwik’s photographs reflect the uniqueness and beauty in day-to-day scenes that go unnoticed, and also his long interest in surrealism and dreams.  Cwik’s work is also imbued with his interest in spirituality and how that affects the physical world in which we exist.  Cwik is interested in both beauty and mystery.  Enigma is good.  He likes to take a simple scene and elevate it, lift it up, transform it.

Cwik also works in drawings, most of which are surreal and/or imaginative, and mélange-style short films, Super 8, with music, which have been included in several film festivals.

Cwik’s photographs have appeared in numerous publications in the U.S. and Europe, and his work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and abroad for more than 25 years, in venues including the Portland Art Museum and Tacoma Art Museum, and dozens of gallery exhibits in Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Shanghai, and elsewhere.  His work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Bank of America, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, among others.