My photographic practice explores a range of interconnected themes centered on the unusual, the esoteric, and the decaying and abandoned aspects of our physical world. I am particularly interested in the relationships between people and built environments and specifically in the emotional, psychological, and practical devices through which we interact with the things and spaces we encounter. I attempt through my photographic work to address questions concerning how ways of seeing, memory, and projections of human emotions on physical things are used to shape our experiences. The three portfolios currently on the website offer different perspectives to these questions.
Berlin at Night is a personal look at a place I have known intimately and loved for over fifty years. These images from the demimonde that exists between dusk and sunrise evoke a sense of wonder and intrigue that are a big part of my love for the city and of what binds me so strongly to it.
Windows explores the ways in which windows and other architectural openings in art museums act to frame and mediate our experiences of the world beyond their walls. Images that populate these outward facing frames can shift sour attention from the art on display to the external surrounding environment and in doing so show how an ordinary view, filtered through a new, unintended context, can acquire new meaning and transform our perception of the familiar.
Souls of Inanimate Things considers the ways in which we project emotional states and human qualities on inanimate objects. These overlaidimages create liminal spaces in which objects take on ambiguous and almost animate presences, inviting viewers to engage with them on an emotional level. Here, a group of creative people reacted in writing to the images, illustrating their emotional relationships to the inanimate.
If this work is of interest to you, I would be happy to talk to you about it. I can be reached at [email protected].