Frank Dienst Photography - Wet Land Voices: Florida landscape photography, large format, featuring Florida wetlands, rivers, etc.

Frank Dienst currently lives and works in Central Florida. Holding degrees in Psychology and Medicine.

In addition to photography, Dienst has explored alternate modes of visual expression through painting as well as extended periods of work as a professional musician.

Dienst has pursued photography for over twenty years, exploring the subconscious in search of the visceral bond between man and earth. Dienst derives visual symbolism with vibrant light and exotic landscape. The words of the poet Ruth Bernhard, "Everything is one and I am one with it," has true meaning for him.

Photographs from the current series have won regional and national awards and are currently in numerous private and public exhibitions.


"What a beautiful, beautiful book of inspiring and meditative photographs -- a profound tribute to your vision and to your being. With pleasure I gently turned each page and gazed with a deep sense of joy, and at times disbelief in the image that was before me -- simply exquisite -- magnificent. Thoughts of my dear friend Minor White and his pioneering photography came to mind. Minor would have been in awe over your photographs as I was and am. They are a tributr to your vision, the unseen beauty in the State of Florida and to the great potential of photography, in the hands of an artist, to visually remind us that we are one with each other and that the earth is ideed our mother -- the archetypal Mother Earth -- Earth Mother!" --- Richard Zakia, photography professor emeritus at School of Photographic Arts & Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, August 1999 "The images are exceptional, and certainly among the best landscape and nature work I have seen. Dienst has a wonderful eye and a unique vision which certainly deserves to be better known. Lovers of black and white photography would be remiss not to add this book to their collection." --- Bob Shell, "1999 Best Holiday Books," SHUTTERBUG,December 1999 "Like Clyde Butcher, Frank Dienst's black and white photographs capture the stark beauty and intricate wonder of Florida's natural woreld. DThe photographs in this impressive coffee-table book are simple -- burned palmettos, fallen pine trees, blooming wildflowers, tangled roots -- but they convey the transcendent power of nature." --- TAMPA TRIBUNE-TIMES, October 1999 "It can be extremely difficult to mirror the intense beauty and serenity of the Florida landscape while reproducing it in black and white photography. Fortunatelt Frank Dienst applied to the exhibition to exemplify how it is achieved. Frank will entice anyone to visit Florida's wetlands for closer inspection." --- Kristen Austin Harris, Curator, Exhibitions and Collections, Brevard Museum of Art & Science, August 1999 "Delicate, exotic images reveal the primeval elegance of Florida's mysterious landscape in Wet Land Voices...Indeeed, the book not only is ecocative, but its silky pages are richly sensuous in presentation." --- Pam Harbaugh, "Photos Let Wetlands Speak", FLORIDA TODAY, December 1999 Photographs from Wet Land Voices were also featured in LENSWORK QUARTERLY, Issue #27, Nov. 1999 - Feb. 2000