My photographs are digitally captured. Shot in color, the greater number of images have been transformed into black and white and printed on a variety of archival papers selected, by texture and degree of warmth of tone, to match the content of the image. Images that retain their color do so based upon content as well, as some images require color to help bring forward their message and maintain integrity of organization as works of art.
In selecting what I consider to be worthy content, I may be interested in anything. And, principally, I look for some scene or predicament that tells a story. For me the narrative, no matter how outwardly inconsequential, holds fascination or importance as a function of its success in revealing something cogent about human life. Thus, landscapes may smack of imbalanced human intrusion or moral omission, still lives suggest human presence, images of people have at least one plain truth to convey, no matter how humble. The idea is, of course, not remarkable. But it is for me at the center of what makes a photograph contextually substantial…and beautiful.
