FAQs
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
My arrival as a photographer has not been a planned event. Nor would it be, as all of my life journeys have been more meanderings than blazed pathways. I was not "born with a camera in my hands", nor have I been "seeing the world through a viewfinder since my first camera on my 12th birthday". To get here, first I had to balk at the thought of college - or more accurately, the thought of going to college just for the sake of it, having no idea what I actually wanted to study. I would have to run away to the Ecuadorian Andes to learn where the heart of my 18-year-old self would lie. Then I would have to prove that I hadn't run away for lack of intelligence, and take myself back to the States to attend MIT, having by then determined that I wanted to build things - big things, preferably ships. And though my left brain loved the comfort of knowing that there was a correct answer to any equation, and that all other answers were wrong, my right brain craved something more subjective - I therefore took myself to Italy to study art and history, where there was always more than one right answer. On my return again to the States, I did indeed spend many of my weeks in various shipyards around the country. However, having been born a hundred years too late for the trans-Atlantic luxury-liner industry, my engineering expertise was used to design building structures instead. Yet, just like in college, I've never been able to live purely in the world of numbers and equations. In photography I've found an art that also demands an exactitude. Light is an exact science. The capturing of it is a fine art. I live between the two.