[ B I O G R A P H Y ]

45 years as a photographer…. That’s a very long time! These years have brought many changes in technique and technology, and by grasping them along the way, I hope to have found my “voice” in the photography world of today. Through digital capture I find I am able to experiment a great deal more than in the early days of film. Working with film gave me discipline. Working in the dark room gave me the fundamentals of photography that are the same whether it’s digital or film. However, it was when I embraced the digital format that the real fun began. The addition of new photo editing software and my rather free spirited use of it allowed me to create images that inspired me from the first look through the camera lens to the photo that emerged from my printer. Now in this ever changing photographic world I have embraced new media. I am printing on metal and enhancing some pieces with neon. In the beginning, it was the need to bring to life the dozens of cars images I captured during my Cuban travels. How could I make them look different than the millions of other car images that were exploding out of the “new” Cuba? Once I became familiar with the process of printing on metal, one idea led to the next. Since basically I am an urban photographer, anything with metal came to life. Literally in the middle of one night, I sat up and said to myself, ”what about adding neon?” In the last year I have returned to live in Salt Lake City again. I love the changes that have come to the city over the 50 some years since I lived here but I also cherish the things that have stayed the same. I have been combing State Street and Main Street for the relics of my youth. Most of the haunts from my teen years are gone but I have found some familiar facades. Several will appear in this show and there is a great deal of material yet for me to collect. What is my vision? Through all the years of distillation I find that I am totally fascinated by the human condition; how people spend time together, how they celebrate, where and how they eat, the joy of the party, the brilliance of one era, leading to its decay in another. It is an unending tapestry, from one country to another, from one city to another, one family to another, from one age to another. Please share for a short time my vision of a lifetime.