Artist Statement
A good poem is like a photograph
A writer friend once told me that the key to good writing is to follow the advice of “show, don’t tell.” That got me thinking about photography. I always thought that the best photographs are ones that seem to tell you all kinds of things that you couldn’t possibly know from looking at a photograph: a mood, an emotion, what the photographer was thinking when he took the picture, what the subject was feeling, what happened right before or right after the photo was snapped. Good photographs are like poems. They present the viewer with specific visual details of a time and place – with the distilled essence of a moment – and compel the viewer to imagine the story.