Dean Forbes is a longtime semi-professional photographer based in Washington state. His work has been widely exhibited online and in galleries and publications. He currently uses digital medium format for most of his work. His emphasis is quieter places and inanimate objects. His influences include the New Topographics school of photographers of the 1970s as well as contemporary photographers. The latter emphasize interesting compositions that can be found in the banal, the mundane and the ordinary that most would pass by without a second glance. The former found a new language of landscape photography that examined the impact of the manufactured on the natural world.