Artist Statement:

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A photographer by trade, I seek to create an emotive sense of question and wonder.  The initial, “What am I looking at?” reaction is as important to me as the way in which a photograph or a set of photographs make the viewer feel over time.  

 

What transpires within the viewer intellectually is important but it follows naturally from an initial transitory feeling or reaction.  Photography has an innate power to communicate on multiple levels.  We each decide what images communicate.  Our reactions are entirely subjective and can be a derivative of visual confusion or a vehicle that elicits a conversation of a more conceptual nature.  

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It is for these reasons that conceptualization remains paramount in my craft; bodies of work begin with ideas.  There need not always be direct lines between concepts and images, but I do think that concepts can help to contextualize and add meaning to bodies of work.  More than this, they can help to shape crucially important but fleeting first impressions.

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