Biographical Information
Max Lyons was born in Belgium and grew up in England and
the United States. After completing graduate studies in Economics,
Lyons worked briefly in Washington as a policy analyst before becoming
interested in both photography and technology.
Lyons' interest in creating photographs started in the mid 1990s with the
advent of consumer-level digital photography. He was inspired by the freedom
to experiment that this new technology allowed, and developed interests
in both architectural and landscape photography.
By 2000, Lyons was becoming intrigued by the visual impact provided
by very large photographic prints. He was influenced by the large format works of
film photographers such as Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth...two
artists pushing the limits of large format photography. However,
Lyons was also becoming frustrated with a serious limitation of digital
photography -- its relatively low resolution, and inability to capture
sharp, detailed, large images.
In early 2001, Lyons stumbled upon an innovative solution to the limited
resolution of digital cameras, in the form of "stitched" images -- composite
images created by joining together multiple images. Lyons realized that
this technique could be used to create photographs with much greater
clarity than any single digital or film image. Lyons embarked on a
multi-year, and ongoing, effort to create a portfolio of incredibly
detailed, high resolution images, the results of which
are on display here.