Artist Statement

Every photograph shows something you can see and is about something you can’t. Some I alter. Some I only had to capture. I don’t tell you what it’s about. That part is yours.

None of this requires a background in art. If a picture stops you, it’s working. What it means is up to you.

My passion for photography began early, shooting for my school paper and yearbook. In college, with less time and fewer resources for my own work, a film criticism course introduced me to the visual language of cinema and changed how I understood both film and photography. It was no longer only about acting, dialogue, and plot. What was inside the frame — and what wasn’t — mattered too.

The career that followed left little time for making pictures, but it changed how I learned to look. I started as a programmer and analyst — a technical problem solver, happiest in the details. Later, supporting sales, I discovered that the harder problems were often human ones: understanding not only what people said they needed, but the constraints and motives they left unspoken.

That became the foundation for a consulting and contracting company of my own, where I had to hold different frames of reference at once, recognize patterns, reconcile contradictory goals, and persuade people that the resolution made sense. Only later did I recognize how much of that work depended on seeing what wasn’t immediately apparent.

Retirement returned the time the career had taken. I came back to photography with a different eye.

I work across several series at once, following what holds my attention rather than a single fixed subject.