I like to think of myself as an artist who uses photography as the primary medium for my artistic practice. While I have no qualms with color and/or digital photography, I work almost exclusively with black and white film using a variety of cameras and formats. I do all my own darkroom work mostly producing silver gelatin prints on fiber-based photographic papers.
My work questions the materiality and traditions of analog photography through processes of distortion and manipulation. I attempt to challenge the conventions of photographic traditions by treating photographs not as mechanisms for creating fixed records but as mutable media for artistic intervention. Altering traditional darkroom techniques to my own ends I create images that create another reality where a photograph’s subject matter is not necessarily associated with a specific time or place but takes on a unique form of its own.
My work has been displayed at museums and galleries across the United States, as well as being included in several private collections.
