I am a photographer.
I make immersive panoramic multi-panel photographs.
I work with a view camera and film.
Each panoramic image is composed across three or more sheets of film that I expose sequentially as I rotate the camera on a leveled tripod. The spaces you see between frames in my images represent the boundaries between individual sheets of film. Each sheet of film holds enough information to make large prints with exquisite detail.
In my spare time
I am with my family on Cape Cod when I am not making photographs. My wife and two young boys bring joy and balance to my life. We go on adventures. We stay at home. We have too many interests and passions, and we try to do it all!
Solve et Coagula
My vision has evolved over years of practice.
At first, I showed finished work as contact prints, with the sheets of film lined up edge-to-edge. Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ansel Adams to crop in the camera, I favored the contact print as a statement of how perfectly I could make the image. An act of pure ego.
Yet, large prints needed to be made, and the film edges that served proof of my precision began to fall by the wayside. It took years for my ego to accept this dissolution, but in time, the spaces between the images began to represent something new, though it had always been present.
The spaces are liminal space. Without it, my images could not have taken me on the journey of a lifetime. Thinking about these spaces, and trying to understand why I brought them into being with such intention, I have, through stages, been transformed.
I discovered that the spaces are an invitation to forget they exist. Things the mind forgets open doors for the heart to remember.