Photography, for the most part, is a way to document a moment, place or person. This can be done with pictures of a parade, a landscape or portrait. Around 1900 or so the Pictorialist movement started. The Pictorialist wanted to move photography towards art and away from snapshots and technical photography. The Pictorialist believe the most important part of the picture is not the photo, but how you make the photograph. It’s all about the process. This was done by scratching the negative, putting oil on the lens or printing cyanotypes or other alternative process.

    I’m not going to spend a lot of time explaining the technical aspects of my photography. That kind of thing will only interest myself and a handful of others. I’ll just say that I made my own camera which I use to make paper negatives. The paper negatives are then contact printed onto photo paper for the final print.

The Camera

    I have a mutaul understanding with words. I don't bother them and they don't bother me. As a result, I don't explain my work very well, but other people have. I have heard people describe my photos as "Surreal", "Dreamlike", and, "Like a half forgotten memory or dream". People have compared my work to Charles Addams, Edward Gorey and once someone said it reminded him of Joel Peter Witkin (Without the cadavers). And once I had someone say, "You have some nice pictures, too bad about all the rips and wrinkles". Oh, well. can't please everyone.