About the Photographer

I bought my first reflex camera about 25 years ago and I was immediately hooked.  Ten years later, I discovered the beauty of medium and large format photography and I slowly became fascinated by the strange and unexpected light anomalies of the Holga and the Diana camera.  Not soon after, I made my first pinhole camera and my perception of photography changed.  I began to discover a strangely interior world beyond the lens of the camera itself and I became deeply interested in the how the shutter of a camera could document the fluidity of time and the ephemeral essence of things.  A world beyond a world that my physical eyes could not see.  As I began to probe more deeply beyond the photographic surface of things, I also became fascinated by how the camera was able to capture the very liquid nature of body and form – which was very much in keeping with my Buddhist understanding of things – and I knew at once that the camera could be used not only as an art form but as a vehicle of deepening consciousness.  Often, I will deliberately blur an image or manipulate the surface of a print by scratching, bleaching or painting, in order to evoke this feeling of the ephemeral and to motivate the viewer to look deeper beyond what the physical eye is capable of seeing.
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