Aaron Kleidon was born in rural Southern Illinois, and received a BA in photography from Southern Illinois University. Since graduating he has worked in Chicago as a custom fine art printer. There he specialized in Silver gelatin, Platinum/ Palladium, and the Albumen photographic process. Aaron currently lives and works in Aspen, CO. He is represented by galleries in Chicago and St Louis and is in numerous private collections throughout the US as well as Europe.
His work deals with vignettes of past culture, and the idea that these ordinary spaces have become sacred places. Narratives and tableaux’s emerge from within the photographs to engage the viewer’s imagination, and raise questions about how and why things are as they are.
Currently Aaron is exploring and working on documentary projects dealing with the Mississippi river, and rural America.
His work deals with vignettes of past culture, and the idea that these ordinary spaces have become sacred places. Narratives and tableaux’s emerge from within the photographs to engage the viewer’s imagination, and raise questions about how and why things are as they are.
Currently Aaron is exploring and working on documentary projects dealing with the Mississippi river, and rural America.