A photographic imagination

Every image has two sides. First of course is the the trace of what once was or what maybe never was. The image can transform reality to what can be imagined, dreamed or conjured.

Jan Morris in her book Manhattan '45 observed that Manhattan seems to reinvent itself every dozen or so years. With very few permanent reference points our memories become fictionalized and the fictions of the screen become fact. I think that has made it easier for me to mock the documentary veracity of photography in my work. NY isn't that real.

I think that there is a quality of incompleteness in my images that to me gives them a sense of spontaniety. I know that the original capture is not my final word on the subject so I am willing to take chances when shooting. They are not technically perfect or well composed at capture. These captures are a cue to recall visually from my own emotional recollections something that can't be known only from what is photographed.