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My views on photography are often contradictory
and even hypocritical.
For the most part, my work is documentarian. Things
exist that I find interesting, and I take pictures of them. The
bigger picture is gradually made clearer for those
who take the time to examine what things I find interesting and
why I am taking pictures of them.
Some of my works, however, tell stories within arranged
settings with characters, roles, costumes, masks and
props, in the tradition of the great Kentucky photographer
Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
This site is under construction and will be for some time to
come. Eventually works here will be organized in their proper
sets and categories. For now they are presented completely at
random.
I take the same lowbrow approach to photography as I do with
painting and music. I would rather take 10,000 photographs that
please me than to struggle and slave over a handful of photographs
intended to please someone else.
Don't scrutinize my pictures and muse about the focus, or the
composition, or the contrast. These photographs are simply what
they are, and they speak an inner language that I, the savage, am
trying to teach the civilized.
I use any and all cameras at my disposal, though my camera of choice
at the moment is an Olympus D-510 digital camera. Some see my use of
digital cameras as odd, considering that I am known for my luddite
philosophy. I don't feel like explaining it here, but will be happy
to discuss it with you over a pint of lager at Seidenfaden's.
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