Photographic Structure

 

I call my current work Photographic Structures. I use photographs in non-traditional ways. This is not your grandmother’s photo album! It’s time for photographs to be integral, interactive parts of people’s lives. I achieve this by taking photographs off of the walls and making them BECOME the walls - or the clothes.

 

I’ve also included more traditional bodies of work - the ‘hang on the wall’ type of images most associated with photography. Over the course of my career I have shifted from realistic, documentary types of images to abstract interpretations and occasionally back again. I let the subject guide my shutter speed and aperture.

 

Sometimes people ask what type of camera I use. Truthfully, I use everything from Polaroids to large-format cameras, disposable to hand-made pinhole cameras, toy cameras to high-end digital SLRs, and everything in between. I was schooled in traditional photographic technique and although I currently do much of my work using digital cameras (Olympus D-SLRs), I still love the darkroom.