Sean Higgins '96

Photographer/Digital Artist

Hometown: Los Angeles

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Sean Higgins graduated magna cum laude with a BA in art from Moravian University in 1996 and earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, and Cologne, Germany, among other cities.

Higgins currently creates collages using photos that he has taken and manipulated digitally to create landscapes that are mysterious and surreal.

Many of Higgins’s latest pieces depict volcanoes erupting or icebergs melting—natural and unnatural forces.

 

The Photo Lab

Moravian University is the only college in the region to have a wet darkroom. Renovated and reopened in the spring of 2015, it contains a large darkroom for traditional silver-gelatin processing and a smaller darkroom for historic processes including tintype, daguerreotype, and salt printing.

“I’ve always been interested in landscape. It acts as a stand-in to talk about other things.”

While his work is photo based, most of Higgins’s time is spent manipulating the images in Photoshop. “Even with collages, I am prepping the collage material in the computer and printing it out,” Higgins explains. “I work this way because it allows me to transform a scene, to add layers of mystery, to hide things, to make you question what you are seeing.”