STATEMENT

What I’m doing may be a kind of expressionism. I’m forgoing technical perfection in a machine generated medium for the sake of emotional communication.

There are things that can be seen with film and a traditional lens that can’t be seen with a digital camera, and vice versa. For me, a traditional film camera is a vehicle for aperture and speed exploration. With a digital camera, I feel inclined to avert what the machine is designed to do. The difference between a nice shot and a photograph that I can be happy with is that I’m having some success using the camera as a photon paintbrush.

Photography isn’t purely self-expression, it’s an open channeled response to something that already exists, on its own, independent of the artist. I believe what a photographer brings is a kind of psychic frame or window. If an image works, I feel viscerally connected to it. My intention is to make the photograph a touchstone for the viewer to have their own experience with that information.