My interests are to show cameras and photographs as tools, not as means to demonstrate first hand experience but how we as viewers re-experience a given action, event or object through images. As such, my work is a critical investigation of specific and fundamental characteristics that are associated with photographic practice, such as: light, color, and exposure duration. Of equal importance are the less technical and more conceptual attributes that we associate with image subjectivity such as decisiveness, framing, intent and language.
Collectively I view my work as images and installations that form lateral relationships to one another. I do not intend the work to be a unified collection of images that are interpreted serially. Rather, in considering the often-opposing uses and interpretations of photography I propose a diverse understanding of the medium: in its tendency to construct meaning, its practical uses as a tool that documents, and its ever-present and regressive tendency toward formalism.


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