I have trouble writing about my own work concisely, without wandering through a whole array of topics. This is also a new site and I have not yet organized material for this section. So for now, here is a sampling of what other people are saying about my projects and photography...
"Ryan Gallagher ... invented a new genre: camera tossing. bizarre, sometimes highly abstract photos were evolving. meanwhile some other photographers are following his example, putting their equipment at high risk."
— Der Spiegel Online (an english translation)
"Ryan Gallagher, 28, is on the forefront of the camera-toss craze. ... His 'exercise in chance photography' produces abstract images that are beautiful and intriguing, familiar yet often undecipherable."
— The Washington Post
"...appear almost psychedelic. showing a view of our world, which is otherwise only could achived by combining amphetamines, THC and alcohol. the inevitable movement of the camera at the moment of exposure produces some kind of bizarre blur, which could not be better done by a photoshop-professional."
— Der Spiegel Online (an english translation)
"Your images are reminiscent of harmonograph drawings: patterns in sound drawn using pendulums."
— online visitor
"I once took pictures of hundreds of flies gathering around a light in twilight with long exposure time and they kind of look like your pictures... so thanks for this new stimulus!"
— online visitor
"Physics makes the world go around!"
— online visitor
"Your work is fantastic. Painting with light that is exactly what I am looking for. Thank you for sharing your art and your experience."
— online visitor
"Remember those 'Spirographs' from the 1970's? That's what this series of pictures reminds me of. It's a fond memory. Thanks!"
— online visitor
"Nice, very nice. One of the most original things I have ever heard about! ..."
— online visitor
"Really, quite masterful. Ingenuity of which the likes I have rarely seen."
— online visitor
"Man, that's great! Like looking into another universe. Thanks!"
— online visitor
"This blog (http://cameratoss.blogspot.com) is the best new thing I've come across in the years I have been taking pictures. ... Keep up the amazing work!"
— online visitor
"These are fantastic! i've discovered some interesting things I can do with my camera but I was too scared to toss it. You've started something new, well done! I love it!"
— online visitor
"Wow, it never occurred to me to capture an image this way. Nice."
— online visitor
"They're simply fabulous and have a unique design."
— online visitor
"Am learning from your site. It's mind blowing! Thanks."
— online visitor
"Well, this is just about the coolest thing I've seen in a while. ..."
— online visitor
"This is absolutely brilliant. I have never seen such a cool picture like these."
— online visitor
"I've been sitting in absolute amazement at the beauty of your pictures. Also, for the last 10 minutes I've been absolutely stunned, with the question going round and round in my head 'Why on Earth has nobody thought of that before?!'..."
— online visitor
"Congratulations on the success with your exhibition...I hope this opens many doors for you..Your work is truly amazing and inspiring."
— online viewer
"... It looks like a lot of frequency responses of different order high/band pass filters with different cut-off frequencies and resonance!"
— online viewer
"How neat and unusual! it reminds me of gently curling smoke, as seen from the bottom as it rises. ..."
— online viewer
"Un attracteur éstrange... !"
— online viewer
"Very beautiful and conceptually fascinating."
— online viewer
"Wow, this is almost to good to be true. ... What camera did you use and how did it end up so unbelievable 'clean'? Reminds me of a toy I used to have. Kind of binocular. When you looked through it you saw amazing colours and patterns... Really love this!"
— online viewer
"... it almost looks like you draw the design. Every line is beautiful in place. Incredible!"
— online viewer
"These are both beautiful and amazing."
— online viewer
"...amazing images...I've just apragred to a digital SLR so now my point and shoot, previously hidden in a drawer now has a new reson detre! Great images and truly different"
— online viewer
"...beautiful, there's something hypnotic about it"
— online viewer
"how do you take photos like these? I'm simply awestruck. incredible!"
— online viewer
"This is such a great use of tech (cameras) to take snapshots of the invisible just outside my perceptual reach. Now I have to get a camera I'm not afraid to break.... Thanks for opening this idea world!!!"
— online viewer
"stunning!...and final proof that that string theory truly does describe the fundamental nature of reality."
— online viewer
"... I like the fact you use a 'physical' technique as opposed to digital creation. Has a more 'organic' feel to it."
— online viewer
"I can't believe you can get that by tossing the camera.. looks like a math fractal ... awesome."
— online viewer
"... reminds me water, curtains of laser, sound, so many things in the softness of these images. Beautiful."
— online viewer
"I would have thought I'd have started to get bored with the wildly abstract images, no matter how cool they looked. But nope. Great stuff."
— online viewer