SF Fetish Cultures

My photographic eye has always been focused on taking un-staged images of real people. This is what is meaningful to me; showing individuals that allow the viewer to see something he/she has not seen before, from my perspective, while expanding my vision of a deeper feeling within our diverse world. In my early work, I started out as a street photographer before I realized its meaning. My approach is to be quick and quiet and not linger too long in one place: mostly out of respect for the people, but also because the mood photographically changes so rapidly, it becomes something else. Over the years, I’ve focused on long-term projects and living in San Francisco, has allowed me the pleasure of documenting various scenes of cultural urban life in the city; political protests, parades, Folsom Street Fair, Exotic Erotic, Gay Pride, Cesar Chavez and the well know night parade of the Day of the Dead. Currently, I’m focusing on creating more work from photo essays. I’ve completed two essays in the past: a medical humanitarian in Zimbabwe, Africa and the second story is one I have submitted to LensCulture’s first Black & White competition. It’s a thought-provoking story about a young gay ex-Navy man, who become a male stripper in San Francisco after he was given a Dishonorable Discharge or DD based on his sexual orientation. The result exposes a deeper underlying and the immense complexities of a world seldom seen from the inside.