Biography:

For nearly two deacades, I have worked as a photojournalist in Connecticut, documenting the life of my community.

In the course of my career, I have won dozens of state, regional, and national awards: recognized by the National Press Photographer’s Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, Connecticut News Photographers, and The Associated Press for the quality and timeliness of my work.

My current visual explorations include an ongoing, long-term project tentatively titled “The Long Island Sound; Watershed Moments”.

Vision:

As an artist entering my third decade of photographic exploration, I have come to believe in a single, basic tenet; light is everything. Composition, exposure, depth of focus, film choice, printing skill… all of those components and a dozen other creative tools and techniques are subservient to the presence and quality of the light. It is light in all its amazing forms that makes photography so wondrously possible.

Each manifestation of light has its own particular power and beauty. Capturing and condensing that light is my key motivation. Sharing the experience of creation is equally important. Sharing my vision is such an essential part of the creative equation, I feel without an audience the entire process lacks purpose.

The final defining character of my work, deeply rooted in my life as a journalist, is my belief that the photograph is a captured moment of time. I believe these moments should not be altered or manipulated; but recorded and shared. My photographs are my way of communicating an experience. My part of of the creative equation is more intermediary than interpreter.

Methods:

Working in a traditional, wet dark room for the first ten years of my professional life, I began to transition to working digitally initially for my documentary work, leveraging the new technologies to get my images into print faster.

I began to print digitally, to take advantage of the superior color fastness and realistic tones possible with improved pigment inks pioneered by Epson. My current methodology is mixture of equipment and technique best suited tothe artistic endeavor at hand. I work predominently in 35mm, shooting Fujichrome, scanning the images, and printing digitally. I print all my work personally, in order tomaintain quality contorl of the finished prints.