Artist Statement (2024)

My art is photography. Based in New England, my photos combine seasonality with nature’s unpredictability to highlight subjects that either have a strong connection to their location or are distinct and different from how they are usually perceived. When the light is just right, a scene can become a template of expression. I feel that my photos broadcast an underlying energy, derived from the subject, absent under ordinary conditions. I try to convey this effect by minimizing distractions, and by giving special attention to exposure, movement, contrast and negative space. 

I have a profound appreciation and admiration for the outdoors. My belief is that there is something intrinsically exciting and energetic about observing the forces of nature. Being immersed in it feels grounding. In a fast-paced, digital world, it is so refreshing to slow down and take in the sights and sounds of nature, including our most basic and innocent footprints in it.

My goal as an artist is to project heightened moments of beauty and life forces onto print and to spread that positive energy to others. It is also to highlight our innate connection to the natural world and acknowledge it as an entity far greater than our own existence, mitigating our collective egocentricity and recalibrating our place in the grand hierarchy. I try to create visuals that make you pause, feel, reflect and contemplate; to see a subject from a unique perspective and have it trigger something buried within, provoking emotions, shifts in mood and a leap towards being in the present. When I am out shooting, am in the present moment, with all previous thoughts, concerns, worries eliminated, in a meditative, spiritual way and I wish to parlay that experience onto the viewer.   

Based in Marblehead, most of my images are captured locally. I am in Vermont frequently so there is a heavy representation of photos from there too. Other locations in my online gallery include Nantucket, Cambridge-Boston and South Florida.