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I started photography in my teens working until I fully
“had my style” at nearly 40. My background is wildly
varied including human services, a stint in politics and
decades in policy development. I founded a
consultancy in policy development, management
consulting and database development shortly after
college. Everything centered around my problem
solving nature. So does my photography. I see art as an
act of creation, a problem to be solved.
I developed my style while traveling for business,
shooting my primary subject, buildings. Ultimately, I
realized that I could shoot performers, portraits,
flowers, anything, as architecture. I then started
showing my work seriously.
My photos concentrate on the interplay of angles,
shapes and light. I compose intending to confound
viewers’ normal perspective. I play with perceptual
tendencies so viewers try to force images into a more
usual perceptual framework. My photos are often
abstractions making subjects hard to recognize.
Viewers, offered a new perspective, hopefully, engage
the images seeing them in new ways. My work is
visually interesting and perceptually difficult.
I compose in-camera, rarely crop, nor modify what the
camera actually captured. No digital or other
manipulation is involved. I produce C-prints, not digital
prints.

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