About
Mission:
I see photography as a way to find and experience life's wonders and discover the stories about people throughout the world. This includes the everyday and extraordinary. I see my work as a pilgrimage of sorts which involves experiencing different cultures, soaking in the beauty of the landscape, viewing amazing buildings, and encountering people in their own settings.
Statement:
I bought my first camera at a high end junk store in Georgetown, Washington D.C. as a teenager. The sales person told me that it was from the 1940’s, made by a company called Monarch, and was made out of black Bakelite. It was basically a three aperture pinhole camera with a plastic lens and a removable screw on back. Even then, it wasn't easy to find the right size film for my $7 camera!
After finishing school, I left photography for painting and joined the art scene in New York City. Then eventually I left that as well for upstate New York where I am now settled in an 250 year old farmhouse.
My passion is for traveling, but I am also excited by the life and scenery around me and by the incredible stories of people who cross my path in everyday life. I still love to shoot film and digitally. For film, I mainly use a medium format camera along with some 35mm and also have done several series of work using a large format camera.
The excitement of bringing the possible, the latent, to life through photography still does not fail to thrill me.
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