Bio

I am a photographer interested in relationships between form, space, and atmosphere. Earlier in my career I worked as a commercial still-life photographer in New York City, where my images were recognized for their saturated color and careful control of subject and ground. During that period I became increasingly interested in the way visual energy develops along the boundary between an object and the space surrounding it, influenced in part by my study of the Abstract Expressionist painters and those that they influenced. I was fortunate to live and work among such artists for many years. The influence of their friendship and their art is in every frame I shoot. After closing my New York studio, I worked in visual brand consulting and later founded a brand and advertising agency. That work was rooted in storytelling and narrative communication. My current photographic practice moves in the opposite direction, deliberately removing narrative to concentrate on the visual relationships that remain when an image is reduced to tone, space, and edge. Across these different phases of my career, the constant has been an interest in how images organize space and how visual structure shapes perception. I have spent my entire working life focused on seeing the world differently.