I’ve always been an artist, even when not producing art. As a child I drew flip-pad animations and made claymation films. After college I wrote short stories and plays while living as a freelance copywriter. As a photographer for the past 24 years, I have approached my portfolio and commercial shoots with an eye toward creating something artful. In recent years I’ve devoted more attention to purely fine-art projects (the snow project in particular has consumed me for the past four winters).

This devotion has returned me to the pure photography with which I began, only now I am exploring with a more evolved technique, eye and mind. It is about diving deep into subjects, finding and creating light, pushing creativity and compositions, expanding the mind, creating moments that transcend reality. There is something magical that happens when the light of a moment is framed and captured photographically. That frame invites study, contemplation, quite literally a new way of looking at the world.

Working in both digital and analog media, I choose subjects that grab me and don’t let go. I begin each project as a study, probing and testing and experimenting until I feel that I have something substantive; I then delve deeper into the subject, pushing myself and my work to create an in-depth investigation. In my compositions I am not seeking to simply reproduce reality, but rather to transcend it, to illuminate a new way of seeing it. By isolating fragments of the world, by treating them with light and technique and love, I am saying to the viewer –

Look here. Here is something special, something worthy of your time. I invite you to see this as if for the first time. I ask you to clear your mind and exist fully in the present with this frozen moment, stolen from reality and conjured here to take its place in your consciousness.