Open Theme nominee

The subject is an old machine that was used for hauling small boats out of the water for maintenance or repair. That was totally irrelevant to me. What spoke to me in seeing the machine was its latent mystery and power and suggestion of an animate inanimate life that could be brought out through the use of particular focal lengths and camera angles at various distances, and especially by the careful use of multiple strobes to create mystery, emphasize shapes, and bring out colors and textures that the naked eye would not be able to see. What is most apparent appears in the pictures -- the strange life and power of the subject, beyond specific aspects or discursive language. That is why the images are referred to as verses. This is about poetry, not mechanics or conceptualization.

Sloan Scholar for the Humanities at the University of Michigan; received MFA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Received various Prizes, Honorable Mentions, or Prize Nominations in the international Fine Art Photography Awards (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019); International Photography Awards (2023, 2022, 2015); International COLOR Awards (2023, 2022, 2021); reFocus Color Photography Awards (2023); reFocus World Photo Annual Awards (2023); and Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards (2023). Work selected (multiple times each) for numerous juried exhibitions of the Center for Photographic Art (Carmel, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT), Praxis Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Black Box Gallery (Portland, OR), The Atlanta Photography Group Gallery (Atlanta, GA), A Smith Gallery (TX), and other venues. Photographs published in F-Stop Magazine, The Photo Review (Annual International Competition issue); COLOR Magazine (Merit Award), Shadow & Light Magazine, and other publications.