Artist Statement

I am a visual storyteller with a deep compassion for the people and places in my world. I like short stories best, stories that evoke an emotional response. Photographs are a legacy, a way to hold onto moments and to share them. I am always observing, always searching for a strong statement of the human experience that I can capture and share; my street photos are often ironic, showing an aspect of life that is contrary to expectations.

Remembrance, documenting the passing of time, abandonment, cities and towns in transition, urban abstracts, urban architecture, performance art (live music, dance, theatre)–these are my main interests. I spend a lot of time on road trips and walkabouts with my camera. I’m drawn to the grittier, more industrial parts of a city, often to abandoned buildings. There is a spirit in these places, magic totems that will resist the rust and rot of their circumstances. The structures may pass on, but my photographs will remain as a legacy to the vibrant life and purpose these places once enjoyed.

A reviewer called one of my exhibits “photorealism.” While I’ve always considered photorealism as a painting genre, the description fits my photography. I photograph what I see in order to tell stories of what is rather than some conceptual reconfiguration or fantasy aspect of what is.