I am the most traditional of photographers—subject-wise, film/darkroom-wise and attitude-wise. I make pictures of found arrangements that I perceive as being visually interesting.
A reviewer once commented, “[He] photographs…the old North Carolina at its moment of passing.” I’m very fond of that idea too, of course. But straight-forward documentation for the sake of it has never been my reason for photographing. As André Kertész said of his work, “It’s for me. I do it only for myself.”
I’m a New Jersey transplant. I moved to the South in 1989. And I’ve been photographing in the Tar Heel state ever since.
I’m 59 years old, American, and I live in Raleigh, North Carolina.
