About
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aka (also known as) MARIELLE
Who is aka MARIELLE?
MARIELLE is my great grandmothers name, and my middle name at birth. I have done photography under that brand since I picked up a camera. It is an acknowledgement to my family with appreciation to my mothers bloodline. I can be called on for special events, movie stills, portraiture or commercial campaigns. I choose my clients and assignments to ensure a creative relaxing atmosphere. The integrity and quality of the work is whats important. I am experienced in portraiture, art photography, nature, events, artist and museum catalogues and am also an FAA Licensed Drone Photographer. I have worked with celebrated actors, musicians, sculptors and also revel in documentary vérité photography. My professional name in entertainment as a filmmaker is Tyler A. Chase.
I was born to a family of musicians and artists and I was encouraged at a young age as a visual artist. I worked in oils and charcoal and participated in exhibitions where I sold my work. I graduated with a BFA, cum laude from Concordia University and later graduated from the NYU Filmmaking Program where I was introduced to Cinematography with 35mm and 16mm format cameras.
Some of my work was exhibited resulting in sales to a private collector. My photographs have been published and used internationally for organizations and events. I am seldom without my camera. I am constantly creating, either with photography or in multimedia
ARTIST STATEMENT
Photography is like prayer. I experiment with light and energy using the camera as a tool to transcribe the relationship with the moments I experience. Inevitably I am sharing the moment with the subject of my focus and therefore there is mutual participation, a communion of energy. The power of images is immense. Even in the ugliest of moments there is beauty.
I don’t think that photographs need to be explained because their purpose is to do that on their own and explaining them strips the viewer of that pure impression, how it affects him/her. Everyone takes away what is communicated to them from the art they are looking at and how it pertains to their own lives. "I aspire to be a visual scribe with light as my ink and my camera as my pen, creating sources of emotional catharsis, inspiration, healing and social change".
I am inspired by the lives of adventurers and photographers like Eve Arnold, Dorothea Lange, Yousuf Karsh and later on I had the pleasure of being friends with photographer, Peter Basch. I like the idea of tradition and culture. I escape to the mystic dream state of light energy with my cameras.
