PHOTOGRAPHER + STORYTELLER

"I first learned about the concept of chiaroscuro, the molding of light with deep darks and bright lights in an image, while studying art history many years ago  My favorite Italian painter, Caravaggio, was a master of applying chiaroscuro. I studied his work while abroad for a season of my life. I became entranced by the emotion and characters in his work. But I learned later that it was not so much the individual details in his pieces, but the way he combed light from a dark recess somewhere up through the paint to the viewer. There is something superbly profound about teasing light out of the deep.

Several decades have passed as I’ve engaged with the craft of photography- using film and digital means, medium format and single lens reflex, amidst a long lineup of various editing tactics- and yet the one element that still entices me most remains the drama of light. In my work, I seek to pull the light through, up and out from some ether. The depth invites such story, the dimensions causes one to pause to fill in the blank.  Therein, I can tell stories- and as light shapes an object, the viewer can shape their response." ~