Photographers often present the world as a series of photographs, some clear, some layered, and some vague or obscured. I am fascinated with the idea of viewing our world as overlapping images, civilizations built on former civilizations, and portholes into those worlds. Sometimes we see the world through reflections on glass. Sometimes we catch glimpses through windows or portals. Sometimes we see where a person has been, or is going, on her face.

For me photography is an art form where the magic primarily happens when the image appears, in the viewfinder, in the darkroom and again in the eye of the beholder. Photographs affirm the past, illuminate the present, and intimate promises of the future. They condense life and bring light to the spirit.

I choose to work primarily in black and white, where light and shadow allow the viewer’s imagination to see the moment with all its uniqueness. Like a good painting, a good photograph will draw the viewer back repeatedly, finding new information, new depths. I search for the light with each photograph I take. Whether this light comes from within, is reflected or illuminates from without, the light shows us beauty and hope. At the same time darkness brings unity, depth and mystery. In a successful photograph one looks time and again, seeing new things, sparking new ideas, creating new questions.

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