Bio
I have photographed people, objects, and buildings for many years. I studied photography in an ad hoc way, with a few scattered courses at Cornell University and Massachusetts College of Art. Mostly, I looked at other photographers' works—from the Magnum crew of Henri Cartier-Bresson to street photographers such as Gary Winogrand—and shot many, many photos. I shoot finished buildings, buildings-in-progress, and renovation work for regional clients such as Princeton University. I’ve also been commissioned to photograph people candidly and in studio for clients such as BBC’s Focus Magazine and regional publications.
Built Environment
The weathered buildings and equipment of a gravel operation outside of Boston sparked my interest in the built environment. And that interest continues—for the past two years, I’ve been photographing the building progress of the Frank Gehry-designed science library at Princeton University. Seeing the guts of a building shows you the true aim of the architect and gets you into the heart of the construction and engineering process. I intend to create a stock photo website devoted to built environment imagery of all types—from boathouses to gothic details.
Blog (UNHINGED)
I use the blog, UNHINGED, as a sort of image/text travelog of current work. For these assignments, I go out and shoot pictures and do research to flesh out the images. Many of these trips end up as lengthier projects, some of which are published by Wild River Review, an online literary magazine where I'm the contributing photo editor. I’m currently working on a series of spectacles—places where people congregate for entertainment purposes.
Artwork (Street Shots / Collage)
Street photography is my way of exploring chance encounters, juxtapositions, details of human interactions, signs—and the colors, shapes, and light of urban settings. Echoing the street photographers of the past—a largely 20th century phenomenon in European and American cities—I find there is plenty left to uncover as cities and people change over time.
Influenced by Robert Rauschenberg’s combines and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s word/image paintings, I blend images of everyday life—fire hydrants, electrical outlets—to create collages with people, buildings, words, signs, and whatever else to suggest larger themes in a kind of nonmusical rap form.
I have also searched for others' snapshots that often end up in flea markets and antique stores. For more on my snapshot collection, please see my page of images and my writing. |
