ANICE HOACHLANDER

About the Artist

For over 30 years, Anice has worked as an architectural photographer in the DC Metro area, bringing to life some of the region’s most eminent residential and commercial projects. Her work has helped clients achieve recognition from more than 450 winning design awards. 

“Visually, I have always responded to structure and repeating patterns of rhythm, light and shadow—it’s what I see, it’s what I love to photograph.” Fascinated by all things structural, Anice has turned her attention toward the organic world, a passion project that resides at the intersection between science and fine art. Guided by a desire to look more closely at the surrounding natural world, she feels drawn to elements of the organic environment—trees, fungi, vegetables, flowers, leaves and building materials—to reveal the intricate patterns that abound at differing scales. 

Since many of the organic structures are so small, Anice uses macro capture photography and image stacking techniques to create sharpness and detail. Many of her images will require stacks of 25-50 individual captures layered and masked to create one final photograph. She never quite knows what the images ultimately reveal until the final photograph is complete. She is interested in the Precisionist movement of the 1920s and how the artists of that time influence her as she creates structural abstractions of the natural environment and building materials, such as corten steel. “I consider my photographs successful if the viewer experiences a communication of the subject in a way that transcends the photograph itself.”

Anice Hoachlander is owner of Anice Hoachlander Photography and the founding member of StudioHDP, a creative group of photographers who specialize in photography of the built environment and landscape architecture. All images are available in sizes ranging from 16” x 20” to 40” x 60”.

For more about Anice, visit anicehoachlanderfineart.com.