Artist Statement

Robert Adams says, “At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”

Whenever I photograph, the detail of a scene attracts me to a subject and helps me locate within it the core of experience, evoking the mystery and drama of its light and inherent beauty. That beauty can be provocative and demanding, requiring one to see it all while at the same time loosening emotion and retaining control.

Whether inspired by the energy of Chinatowns, the painterly imagery observed on immobile highways, or sacred light that illuminates and questions, my search is for that iconic element of ordinary experience that defines the whole. An abstract that portends great depth and complexity wherein lies life's true catalogue.

I thus seek the aesthetic element - those still moments in what is generally thought to be a frenetic environment - that leaves a memory shadowed with intent to re-explore; that inspires a curiosity of what remains. Not memento mori. Rather past, present, and future as they exist to be seen and experienced today.

Like Robert Adams, I am eager to explore and honor what is there, taking a cinematic view of a seemingly solitary image or place that yet chronicles existence, adding to my own as well as others' biographies.

"About" on the thumbnails strip better describes a specific portfolio. With respect to the Chinatowns images, this is only a small selection from the decade-long project. Please contact me or my gallery if you wish to see more.