I first picked up a camera in 1977, after years of watching my grandmother take photos with her Brownie and my father document our family’s summers. Since then, I have never been far from one and my photos have become the diary of my life.
My images are rarely if ever set up in advance and represent a true moment in time that anyone could have seen. Texture and pattern, color and light, are what speak to me and what I attempt to capture and preserve in my photography.
While I have long shot the natural and man-made world as it occurs at the moment I frame the photograph, I have always had an affinity for finding images within images. In the pursuit of documenting the ordinary, I look for the less immediately familiar view of that which we might see every day, in both the natural environment and in the industrial landscape.
I want the images to conjure a story, transporting the viewer into the moment of the photograph, but to raise questions, the answers to which will remain unique to each viewer.
My images are rarely if ever set up in advance and represent a true moment in time that anyone could have seen. Texture and pattern, color and light, are what speak to me and what I attempt to capture and preserve in my photography.
While I have long shot the natural and man-made world as it occurs at the moment I frame the photograph, I have always had an affinity for finding images within images. In the pursuit of documenting the ordinary, I look for the less immediately familiar view of that which we might see every day, in both the natural environment and in the industrial landscape.
I want the images to conjure a story, transporting the viewer into the moment of the photograph, but to raise questions, the answers to which will remain unique to each viewer.
