When I was six years old, my mother gave me a diary. I remember very distinctly that it was red with a little brass lock. This began my journey into recording the details of my everyday life. Writing has always been a love of mine and a necessary part of my self expression. While in school working towards my English degree, I had the opportunity to visit the John Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. To my great pleasure, the feature exhibits consisted of many great photographers with one of them being Andre Kertesz. I immediately fell in love with his work and felt something inside me completely identify. It was upon reading a quote by Mr. Kertesz that I promptly went back home and changed my major to Photography. The words were simply, "I write with light."
Image 2. This is the second image from the project I’m doing of a great master of photography, Stephen Shore. The goal for me is to take something simple and look for story.
Is there such a thing? We get Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve…why not Halloween’s Eve? I was out scouting for locations the other day and turned down a road with a sign that said, “No Outlet.” Always up for a good challenge I proceeded down the road which winded around to a virtual dead...
I was recently inspired by a flickr contact who does the most excellent black and white. His style is very journalistic, full of people and life. So, let’s do some black and white, shall we? Shadow, the toy horsey. Shadow, in action with Lensbaby HAY, whatcha lookin at? TRAIN (a very respectful tribute to the...