Projects
Currently editing two bodies of work
"A conjurer's New York"
Jan Morris in her book Manhattan '45 observed that Manhattan seems to reinvent itself every dozen or so years. With very fewer and fewer 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. New York isn't that real. "A conjurer's New York" is a New York where every image has two sides. First of course is the the traceof what once was or what maybe never was. The other is the image that can transform reality to what can be imagined, dreamed or conjured.
These photographs come in an edition of 8. Prints will be 20 x 30/Digital C.
"Fool's Noir: A photographic imagination"
In "Fool's Noir: A photographic imagination" manipulated and exaggerated images become objects filled with the presence of uneasy memories. "Fool's Noir" like literary or film noir is characterized by "dreamlike, strange,
erotic, ambivalent, and cruel "elements in varying doses. Distilling the complex visions of everyday life to its formal, emotional core we see people almost without faces. Things that we see clearly from a distance, are a mystery at a closer inspection. In losing the detail we sharpen clarity. I guess you could say I like people but I don't worship them. People lost in space. "Fool's Noir" is about those people.
These photographs come in an edition of 8. Prints will be 20 x 30/Digital C.