Vince Thomas is a photographer whose study of psychology and modern and ancient belief systems, spiritual practices, and mythologies drives his belief in the power of the symbolic.
Rooted in reality but seeking the surreal, the unseen or the unsee-able, Thomas' images use the archetypal forces and transcendent energies that surround us as a call to examine how these also live in us and, for better or for worse, drive our perceptions, identities, and actions. He also likes to place both subject and viewer in an unconsdered light through common reference points that veer into a different place – recognizable yet unfamiliar, sublime yet unsettling.
Photography’s power lies in its ability to capture the intangible – a thought or feeling – in a split second of reality from which others take their own meaning from that exact same instance. No other medium can do this. As we are uniquely visual creatures, Thomas considers photography an near ideal means to communicate. It strengthens our collective humanity through shared experience while expanding our definitions of beauty.
Thomas is a lifelong Bay Area denizen with professional expertise in branding, experiential marketing, and storytelling for corporate and non-profit clients and agencies. Besides photography, his more reckless creative pursuits include club promoter, record label owner and music producer, and digital arts and education developer. Currently living in San Francisco with his partner and a big American Pit Bull Terrier named Jasper, he seeks a heart-centered existence, and strives to be compassionate and kind in all things but not at the expense of candor and honesty.
