I have posted a lot of these images before but now I am hopeful that I can make them into a portfolio and put it up on this website. Here is a statement that I haveI wrote.
The images in this collection are made on color negative film, scanned and printed digitally onto cotton rag paper with archival inks. They were either made in a Zero 2000 medium format camera; or in a large format (4 x 5 inch) camera. Some were all-night long exposures, most were exposed for 30-45 minutes when light phenomena happens that can not be predicted. That passage of time is important in these images, for pinhole photography gathers light and records an extended moment differently than the camera with a lens. People become shadows, trees seem to replicate themselves, crashing waves flatten out. colors exaggerate while double exposures occur without intention. Movement is recorded while the time passes. I call this group of photographs Innards because the landscape is soft and the light is layered with what feels like memory. The images put me in touch with a side of myself I didn’t know existed. Over years of experimentation with the pinhole camera, I’ve come to this unconventional place, a mysterious landscape that glows and glistens from within–slightly ominous, endangered, beautiful, and sad. Imperfect and personal.
The preview image is a double exposure titled SomeWhere Near Yachats, Oregon Coast.
Many of these images are available in a self-published boxed book called Innards. Purchase of the book comes with your choice of a print in that is in the book. Published in an edition of 24, there are 10 still available,. Go to the shop on this website to preview the book.
