Spath began taking photographs in 1998, when he was looking for something creative to do and his stepfather loaned him a camera. That year, he took his first photography class in the Berkshires. When he moved to Boston, he took a darkroom class at the New England School of Photography and then began taking classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. He also has studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Maine Photographic Workshops. He currently is completing a certificate in digital photography at Rhode Island School of Design.
Spath is a secondary math and special education teacher in the Lexington, MA, public school system.
In his series of photographs Romancing Σtone, Jonathan Spath unifies two areas of deep personal interest - math and photography.
The photos, taken in a former granite quarry on Cape Ann, MA, also reflect his style of photographing which "looks further and deeper into everyday surroundings to discover what singular perspectives may exist both in the object and the space around the object," he says.
Romancing tone is featured at the Griffin Museum at Digital Silver Imaging in Belmont, MA.
"The stones' shapes, tones, textures, and scale were all of initial interest to me," Spath says. "I then spent time sitting, being in and getting a sense for the place and its formations. After some time passed, I began seeing the distinct geometric shapes, the spheres, the many triangles and other ...