Statement

I am a photographer trained as an architect. I think of buildings and landscapes as stage sets for life's dramas to unfold. When I make a portrait, it is as if the actor has arrived on stage.

When I photograph, I search for visual indications that allude to a history that extends beyond the moment captured. I am attentive to materials, to the surface of things. Whether wood or skin, I am drawn to surfaces that reveal an accumulation of experience.

Weather is an important element in my work because of the power it has to transform both material surfaces and emotional states. I often photograph the same location on different days to see how changing weather will transform a subject. Rain, sun, and wind alter the surface of things, but it is the elemental nature of water, fire and air that have the capacity to transform the emotional atmosphere of a place.

I am interested in collective rituals of all forms - how they bond individuals together and provide resolve to those confronting the unknown. It is through rituals that I understand both the vernacular of a specific place as well as its universal truths.