Photography Atelier

Extracts of the Ordinary

I am fascinated with odd and curious fragments of commonplace public spaces that normally go unnoticed.  Discovered through careful attention to the mundane, these vignettes occasionally appear when potential strangeness momentarily blossoms into juxtaposition and serendipity.

The top of a red ladder peeks into an abstract architectural tableau.  A puffy cloud forms a large hat on a small antenna. The shadow of an enormous flag peers down on an unsuspecting newspaper reader.

The ordinary, viewed through the lens of a particular imagination, can reveal unexpected outcomes.

Dispatches from Terra Incognita

Roman cartographers labeled unknown territory as “Terra Incognita.” In this photographic inquiry into the landscape, I find places and situations in the landscape that are often overlooked, but that emotionally resonate with me. These places sometimes feature a surreal human touch on the landscape, like a rock on the shore, covered with seaweed, and iron bars ascending from within. Or a grid constructed of stone, built onto the side of a cliff.

Looking at the world with this personal perspective, I find that these images can link my vision to the symbolic and archetypal nature of the psyche as ‘unknown territory’.
I shoot on film using a plastic “Diana” camera to capture these images, preferring the ethereal quality of its plastic lens to illustrate a dream-like world.