Artist Statement
Photography takes me to places that allow me to think positive thoughts. While it may not always be about feeling good or bad, it is about thinking of life in a positive way and trying to communicate that feeling to others through my work. I photograph throughout the year and remove a sense of scale from my images, taking ordinary scenes and imbuing them with a sense of the extraordinary. Some things are mundane only because we choose to see them that way. Process Statement
All of my images are hand-coated platinum/palladium contact prints and hence require a large negative so much of the time I work with large format cameras. Recently, I've been using digital technology to create larger inch ink-jet negatives and this has opened up a range of possibilities regarding film and camera format and especially print size.