As a photographer living in the very troubled 21st Century, I have done my best to keep things simple. Over many years, my personal aesthetic seems to have leaned further and further away from embracing new technologies, focusing now more than ever on the essential components of what makes a successful photograph. With the launching of this new website, I want to provide the curious viewer or potential client with a solid and restful experience that may in some way be valuable to them, long after they turn off their computer.
I began experimenting with photography as an alternative to graphic design, which left me restless for new approaches to positive and negative space, lights and darks. Many of my interpersonal relationships revolve around the making of images–very intimate ones–which may often indicate more than I originally intend for them to. That’s the chance I take. Photography for me is a lifestyle, a pattern that can’t be tampered with outside or separated from the framework of daily life. Although I have done some commercial-based work, I always take a fine arts approach to making pictures. The act itself is revelatory and full of possibilities, which is why I keep coming back to the same process, again and again–because it always changes just enough to make me intensely interested in the outcome.
Portraiture, the nude, the urban landscape, the fractal views of things small and unassuming; all of these ways of seeing have provided me with fuel for endless creative energy. I continue to use analog film exclusively–without flash units or Photoshop retouching. In this way, I want to utilize the confines of the original process of photomaking all the way though to the end result. Craft, harmony, balance, originality and execution are the five components that mean the most to me.
I hope that in these photographs you may find something which I did not. That is the way it should be.
Photo of David credit: Virginie Aussedat, Tokyo, 2006