I was first taught Photography officially at Pratt Institute In Brooklyn New York,
beginning in 1985, But I had long before been taught to see more deeply into
images by my older brother who collected photographs and tin types and
would point out all that the photograph was and what made it beautiful. It
was old films that awoke me to shadow and light and its artful uses.
Paintings by Le page, Goya, Rosetti, Schiele and Vermeer gave me a sense
of composition and an education in light and the idea that one image, a
portrait no less, must represent something besides the subject matter. An
emotion rich with meaning was waiting somewhere in the dance between
light and shadow and texture and facial expression and form.I was first
taught Photography officially at Pratt Institute In Brooklyn New York,
beginning in 1985, But I had long before been taught to see more deeply into
images by my older brother who collected photographs and tin types and
would point out all that the photograph was and what made it beautiful. It
was old films that awoke me to shadow and light and its artful uses.
Paintings by Le page, Goya, Rosetti, Schiele and Vermeer gave me a sense
of composition and an education in light and the idea that one image, a
portrait no less, must represent something besides the subject matter. An
emotion rich with meaning was waiting somewhere in the dance between
light and shadow and texture and facial expression and form.I chose to cast
the actors for my photographs, mostly with women. For me there is an ideal
balance found by expressing emotion and sensuality with woman as
protagonist, a face that looks out from some aspect of human experience I
can never really know, the unknowable part of myself mirrored in the ideal of
nature and love and the need to connect with the other. The emotions
expressed are rooted in time. Time that has long gone, time that may one
day come to arrive in the form of memory. I love the idea that I can create a
past that never was in the eyes of a person I will never know. A suspended
world locked in every person. The essence of sensuality.
beginning in 1985, But I had long before been taught to see more deeply into
images by my older brother who collected photographs and tin types and
would point out all that the photograph was and what made it beautiful. It
was old films that awoke me to shadow and light and its artful uses.
Paintings by Le page, Goya, Rosetti, Schiele and Vermeer gave me a sense
of composition and an education in light and the idea that one image, a
portrait no less, must represent something besides the subject matter. An
emotion rich with meaning was waiting somewhere in the dance between
light and shadow and texture and facial expression and form.I was first
taught Photography officially at Pratt Institute In Brooklyn New York,
beginning in 1985, But I had long before been taught to see more deeply into
images by my older brother who collected photographs and tin types and
would point out all that the photograph was and what made it beautiful. It
was old films that awoke me to shadow and light and its artful uses.
Paintings by Le page, Goya, Rosetti, Schiele and Vermeer gave me a sense
of composition and an education in light and the idea that one image, a
portrait no less, must represent something besides the subject matter. An
emotion rich with meaning was waiting somewhere in the dance between
light and shadow and texture and facial expression and form.I chose to cast
the actors for my photographs, mostly with women. For me there is an ideal
balance found by expressing emotion and sensuality with woman as
protagonist, a face that looks out from some aspect of human experience I
can never really know, the unknowable part of myself mirrored in the ideal of
nature and love and the need to connect with the other. The emotions
expressed are rooted in time. Time that has long gone, time that may one
day come to arrive in the form of memory. I love the idea that I can create a
past that never was in the eyes of a person I will never know. A suspended
world locked in every person. The essence of sensuality.
