Photographs:
Forever, artists have given each
other some simple but valuable advice: “Stay with what you
care about.” From plein aire painting in school to the view-camera
my photography professor introduced me to, I’ve been involved
with the landscape. Converting it to forms and patterns that reveal
the nature of the object. Simplifying the complex, the tangled,
and the overgrown into an image that speaks through and beyond
the chaos. I’m trying to broaden the expressive range of
the way I see the familiar... once again and again, the intricacies
of a freshly spun spider-web or a fog-covered grove of trees at
the horizon. In addition to the 4x5, I’ve been working with
the Hasselblad, exploring the advantages of the physical spontaneity
afforded me, finding new ways of seeing images I have previously
studied. All of my images are printed in the classical tradition
of black and white photography; full frame with no extraordinary
dark room or chemical manipulation. For me, photography is a way
to be heard, with visual words, plainspoken but with all the eloquence
I can muster.
All
of the present works are shot on black & white 120 roll film
and 4 x 5 sheet film; traditionally printed full-frame on archival
paper, selenium toned in signed limited editions
Pricing:
Each silver gelatin fiber
base print is individually hand-crafted in the tradit- ional black
and white film process. Printing is done on fine semi-matte warmtone
paper and double-fixed, archival washed, and selenium toned for
museum quality.
Each print is titled, dated, and signed in pencil on verso.
Prints are available on the following paper sizes:
16 x 20 inch $1000 US Edition of 20
20 x 24 inch $1500 US Edition of 25
42 x 42 inch $2800 US Edition of 3
50 x 50 inch $3600 US Edition of 2
Prices
increase as an edition sells out.
