BIO
It’s through experience that I offer my photographic creds. My father lit the fire for my interest in photography as he, with his joy for life, relentlessly captured the moments of our lives. While I was an undergraduate he gave me his Canon AE1, my first good camera. (I remain a Canon shooter to this day.) At the same time, I began learning darkroom and basic technical skills.
My technical training began in earnest in 2012 at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (Summit) where I was introduced to my mentor, Danielle Austen (danielleausten.com). With what I was always told was a “good eye” and technical training I became ever more drawn into the rewards and the many challenges of creating art. To my surprise I was an artist!
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
- Ansel Adams
My day job as a psychologist is one of developing relationships, a kind of intimacy through which to heal. Words, emotions, thought and science are the tools of that trade. As a photographer, I treasure using my emotions and not using words to create another kind of intimacy, one that is shared among the viewer, my subjects, and myself.
Where the scientist asks what equation would best describe the trajectory of an airborne rock, the artist asks what it would feel like to throw one.
- Bayles & Orland (Art & Fear)