From KDR:

KDR is pleased to present No Wind, a solo exhibition of new photographs by Florida-born, Miami-based artist Ian Patrick O’Connor, his first with the gallery.

 Wind is the only one of the four elements you can’t see directly; you can only feel it through its effects or through the absence of them. On one level, No Wind refers to something literal: these images can’t be made in any wind above three knots, or the once seamless paper turns into a sail, and the whole setup collapses. On another, No Wind suggests a metaphorical reading: something hidden within calmness, and the quiet psychological tension that slowly unfolds from it.

This exhibition marks the latest chapter in his series, comprised of nine captures, extending a body of work O’Connor has developed over the past decade. The idea began simply. He takes a roll of backdrop paper - the kind made for studios with controlled environments - and brings it out into the world. Now spanning more than forty works, shot across deserts, jungles, mountains, beaches, and snow-covered landscapes, the series is shaped less by control than by responsiveness to natural conditions.