KID PICTURES 1990-2006

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I photographed my daughter from birth until she moved away to go to college at age 18.  At first the images were casual portraits, made when the moment arose.  Gradually I realized that I was not photographing the events in her life such birthday parties, Christmas morning, baseball games.  Instead I was drawn to emotional moments, when the light was inviting, when she was sick or sad or happy or moody.  I also started early on  to photograph her friends, and the children of friends in the same manner.  Over the years I took hundreds of photographs of the kids that surrounded me with both color and black and white film.  I titled these images Kid Pictures, an irreverent sort of title, of photographs that were not about the happy days of childhood but the less recorded parts, the more painful moments.  I offer some of them here as a kind of tribute to the kids who so willingly showed me the other side of their lives and let me record them.  The Kid Pictures have been shown over the years in many different forms and three of the images are in a public art collection that hangs in a 911 Center as an example of the kind of child that they are dedicated to helping.  All of these images have now been printed digitally and are available in limited quantities.  Please inquire.

The featured Image is of Jess in the Banner Forest on her birthday.

A BLACK AND WHITE PINHOLE PORTFOLIO FROM WILLAPA BAY

A BLACK AND WHITE PINHOLE PORTFOLIO FROM WILLAPA BAY

As most of you know, I was a resident at the Willapa Bay AiR for the month of October. Photographing with my 120 Pinhole camera onto color negative film, I wanted to make a personal record of the Long Beach peninsula, a place I have been going to regularly for over 30...

New Long Exposure Pinholes from Willapa Bay AiR

New Long Exposure Pinholes from Willapa Bay AiR

I have never taken long exposure pinholes all that seriously. I think they are serious photographs and I love the way they look but for once I am finding them to be not only fun but creative too. I made about ten multi hole pinhole cameras and about twenty altoid tin...

Pinholes from Civita di Bagnoregio (a portfolio) 2019

Pinholes from Civita di Bagnoregio (a portfolio) 2019

I lived in Civita di Bagnoregio for 32 days from mid-November into December of 2019.  I received  a fellowship from the Civita Institute to photograph the old Etruscan hilltop town with my pinhole cameras.  I took my 120 film pinhole camera (the "Zero"), my 4 x 5 inch...