It has been quite a journey, a lifelong education.
I started my voyage in high school as a yearbook photographer, learning b&w processing and working for an editorial group. I also used the camera as a way to meet people and get to know them better than my otherwise shy self would allow.
At Eureka College I was the campus photographer and received much encouragement for my efforts. During that time I was hired to shoot freelance assignments including weddings and portraits. My confidence and competence grew.
Even though I was committed to keeping photography a hobby the pull was too strong and with the strident urging of a professor I headed off to graduate school. At the Savannah College of Art & Design I earned an MFA-Photography degree and worked as a photojournalist for the Savannah Morning News for more than five years.
After leaving Savannah I continued my creative endeavors but the volume of work greatly diminished until I was hired to teach a photography course at Monmouth College. At that time I felt it was important to create a new body of work to support my teaching position.
I have a lifelong fascination with people, particularly the nude and relationships.
My current body of creative work includes drawings, landscapes and a variety of eclectic pieces, but I respond most strongly to the human element in my images. I am fascinated with the emotional response I have for size, shape, volume and tone as well as the response viewers have to my images.
What does a person see? How does a person see? Why, when I walk in a crowd of people, do I perceive certain aspects as attractive while the friends I’m with don’t? What do you see that I do not? Am I missing something by not knowing your perspective? Is my perspective special? Do I see in a way that others don’t? Do I help you see differently? Better?
Please share with me what you see.
