05/07/10

•   Biography

  • I was born in 1948 in California.   From California, I  passed through Oregon, then lived in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Bogota, COLOMBIA, back to Minnesota, back to Ohio, then to Nebraska and now to Wisconsin.  I have lived in Racine since 1998.  I tend to feel at home where I do not naturally belong.  Pico Iyer once noted that the current human dilemma in a growing globalized world is learning to live with our alien-ness.  Such a task holds true for blended families,  minority populations, immigrants and emigrants,  and those of use who have never lived in one place long enough or soon enough to have a home town.  Perhaps it is this sense of alien-ness that I seek to explore in my photography.

    Written 10/24/09

     

•   Artist Statement

  • A somewhat self-conscious artist statement. 

    I am drawn to people and the spaces through which they pass and in which they live.  Roughly, I am a street photographer, looking for that magic instant whether it frames people or simply the landscapes in which people live.  That instant can be simply a combination of color and shapes within the environment, a juxtaposition of people with each other or with objects,  individuals alone in space.  The images can be sometimes a close-up of personal features, sometimes a tableau; sometimes ironic combinations, sometimes man-made objects or simply shapes and colors that transmit something back to me. 

    I now use a Nikon D200 digital camera (used to use a Nikon D70S) and a small number of different lenses.  I tend to reply on a Nikon  35-70mm, and a 80-200mm, both f2.8 throughout.  I also use an 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 and less often a 50mm f 1.8.   I print my own photographs with minimal manipulation.  I shoot jpeg at this point but am looking toward shooting in raw soon.