Anice Hoachlander
Portfolios
Living Geometry
Mushroom Symphonics
Structural Abstracts
Water's Edge
About Anice Hoachlander
For more than 30 years, I have worked as a professional architectural photographer in the Washington, DC region, documenting many of its most notable residential and commercial spaces. My eye is naturally drawn to structure and the visual order of the built environment, and these sensibilities continue to inform my fine art practice.
Over time, I have become increasingly aware of how architecture seeks connection with nature and how light, materials, and spatial rhythm can ground people in place. This biophilic instinct, even when unstated, has become part of how I search for imagery.
Recently, I returned to my fine art roots that I had set aside since college. I began exploring themes in the natural world, applying the same digital masking, layering, and precision techniques that define my commercial work. This shift has led me from ancient live oaks and cypress swamps in the American South to familiar places along the C&O Canal, the Chesapeake Bay, and the Eastern Shore. I photograph flowers, lichen, landscapes, and abstract organic patterns. In these environments, I find a similar spatial clarity and compositional order that I seek in architecture.
Influenced by the Precisionist Movement of the 1920s, I also develop structural abstractions drawn from building materials and forms I encounter every day. Starting from a single photograph, I digitally manipulate and rotate the image until an abstract composition reveals itself. A constructed geometry that feels both discovered and engineered. These abstractions often parallel the fractal patterns and repeating rhythms found in nature.
I am equally drawn to the miniature and overlooked. Using macro photography and focus stacking, I create images of extraordinary detail composed from 25 to 50 individual captures merged into a single final photograph. I am searching for fine texture and intimate scale, where the natural world becomes a source of calm, complexity, and grounding.
email: anice@studiohdp.com