Christian Lee Rumple is a Visual Artist whose work explores the intersection of landscape, human presence, and the built environment. Working across analog and digital processes—including large-format film, Polaroid, and ultra-wide panoramic formats—his images investigate how everyday spaces quietly reveal systems of use, neglect, repetition, and memory.
Rather than focusing on people directly, Rumple’s photographs emphasize traces of human activity: roadside structures, signage, walls, gas stations, and transitional spaces that exist between destinations. These environments function as psychological landscapes—places shaped by human intention yet often overlooked, abandoned, or stripped of narrative clarity. Through careful framing and an emphasis on scale, surface, and atmosphere, the work invites viewers to slow down and consider how meaning accumulates in ordinary places.
Rumple is particularly interested in how photographic processes influence perception. The use of large-format cameras and instant film introduces physical limitation, distortion, and imperfection, reinforcing the tension between documentation and abstraction. Across bodies of work, the images resist spectacle in favor of quiet observation, allowing subtle formal relationships—light, repetition, horizon, texture—to become the primary subject.
Ultimately, Rumple’s practice examines how landscapes and structures reflect collective habits and cultural memory. His photographs are not records of specific locations so much as meditations on presence, absence, and the uneasy familiarity of spaces we pass through without noticing
