Through it all, he has discovered that digital has its own unique visual language. The images are more compressed, foreshortened and unpredictable—in one, depicting spray-paint markings on the street, the colors turn from yellow to bright orange in the shadows. Instead of resisting these quirks, Gibson leans in. For many of the works exhibited in Digital Color, he paired his M-9 and M-10 Leica rangefinders with a 135-mm Apo-Tely lens, a long focal length that only amplifies these characteristics.
