Photographer's Profile

Paul Maschak

United States

’ve been drawn to flight and light since childhood. Every summer, my parents took my brother and me to local airshows, where I became captivated by the raw power and grace of aircraft like the F-4 Phantom and the Vulcan bomber with its sweeping delta wings. Those early impressions led me in the 1960s to pick up a hand-me-down Konica 35mm SLR — not just to remember what I saw, but to hold tangible artifacts of those memories. In high school, I began developing prints in the darkroom, learning the fundamentals of light, exposure, and tonal control in both color and black & white. Strangely enough, I still apply those same principles in my digital work today. Photography has been my lifelong companion — from army field exercises (where I was rarely without both a rifle and a camera) to my career as a photogrammetrist, mapping the world from images. That work took me across the globe, always with a camera in hand, always chasing light.