New York Water

My interest in New York Water originates from several places. First, I am fascinated by the hidden machinery of the modern age—the huge container ships that move goods around the world, the giant gantry cranes that handle the cargo they transport, the plants that provide electricity, the factories that transform raw materials into useful substances, the facilities that process their (and our) effluents. Though massive in scale, they are mostly hidden from the everyday life of the residential and commercial districts they support. In photographing them, my goal is to make visible a portion of the infrastructure upon which we all depend. My hope however is to offer more than documentation. Water and sky serve as a canvas upon which to depict form, the central subject of all my work. And there is such a variety of forms one can see from the shore or from the deck of a ferry! Some shapes are rectangular, some are rounded. Some are regular, others show various protuberances and projections. Some are flat whereas others show patterns. Many combine all these elements. Then of course there is the water itself. We think of water as something that is contained within a vessel, yet it is a container itself, a container for an infinity of color, tone, shape and movement. Perhaps this is why I have always been drawn to it.