Rod Cook
Rod Cook worked in photography in New York for the first twenty-five years of his career. His other jobs have included managing editor of a magazine, helicopter pilot, and partner in a design firm.
In 1996 he began printing in platinum /palladium under the tutelage of Sal Lopes, an internationally recognized master of the medium. Shortly thereafter was born Cypress Knees and Tupelos, the title for an ongoing photographic portfolio consisting to date of eighty-five platinum/palladium prints of nudes taken by him in the cypress swamps located near Savannah, GA.
In 1998, he expanded into a new body of work abbreviated as FP which consists of his unique interpretation of botanicals. More recently he has been photographing Animate Objects, Moving Landscapes, and the occasional “Spontaneous Exception.” Most recently he has been working with nude torsos in invented color, embedded in wax and mounted on wood.
