Perspective

Seamus Heaney, writing about a drive through County Clare and glimpses of a foggy sea and land:

Useless to think you can park and capture it

More thoroughly. You are neither here not there,

A hurry through which known and strange things pass,

As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways

And catch the heart off guard and blown open.

Yet photographers do stop and try to capture something– an experience maybe. Camera lenses, of course, are limited to recording, not the substance of whatever an experience is, but only light passing through a lens. 

Still, a kind of magic can happen. An image does appear and becomes a thing in the world. If the image does its job, it will be arresting enough so viewing it will be its own imaginative experience. Meaning and story telling emerge. Sometimes the heart is blown open.

In the found world that interests me as a photographer, everything has a context and everything has a history. An image, whether of a human-made place or the natural world, contains a story about the relations of various objects or inhabitants, of a space and the ways bodies might move through it. There is often, as well, a suggestion of what is beyond the image, behind its center, outside the frame, a hint of time and space that live in minds and imaginations.‬ At their best, photographs are evidence of things unseen.

Bio

After many years of working as a public interest lawyer, I found myself looking for a different way of being part of the world. Photography has become that alternative. 

Most of my training has been at the international Center for Photography, where I found a welcoming community. I completed ICP's Advanced Track Certificate program in 2018.

My photographs have appeared in group shows in New York City, the Hudson Valley, and national venues.