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About the Artist

Harry Hitzeman presents the beauty of nature and the otherworldly aspects of flora, earth, sky, light, and water through his radiant, ethereal and often symbolic/metaphoric photographs. All his work is intended to reflect a reverence for life and a desire to hold a broad horizon of awareness. He has studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has studied photography with photographers Ian Whitehead, Hank Erdmann, and Willard Clay. Harry Hitzeman counts among his influences Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, David Muench, and Alain Briot. Harry Hitzeman maintains a one-man studio in Naperville, Illinois.

Artist Statement

My photographs reflect my best attempt to capture the eternal and infinite beauty of life. For me, being in nature and capturing its beauty in a photograph sustains the joy I experience in the first seeing of it. It brings me — clearly and with deep gratitude — to the realization that I am one with life.

My joy is in going out, savoring it, capturing it, and sharing it with you. Each final print is a tangible reminder and window into these special places and subjects that exist in nature.