Tight focus and unique perspective give my photographs an abstract, painter-like quality. By filtering out the distractions and clutter surrounding my subjects, the work provides a fresh perspective on everyday, overlooked images.

My photography is increasingly about edification and limitation. The removal of an object’s surroundings becomes strengthening to the subject. I focus on line, form, color, balance, gesture and structure — the juxtaposition of hard and soft elements, like a painter seeking to balance the weight of many shapes on the canvas, to create a vignette of visual perfection that is so personal and in a way romantic. The paradox of a fleeting moment caught still and forever as an image. The rippling of nearly still water, a reflection, a ladder, a rope, a decayed surface. In using the camera as a tool to make images I think heavily about conveying my emotional response to my subject.

New Works

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