Bio
My inability to draw or paint since childhood has eventually led me to rely on photography not only as the best medium for recording but also for expressing my relationship with the world in which I live. Since I have no formal education in the arts, I’ve relied on my long-standing desire to document the exceptional combinations of light and landscapes to self-motivate and approach photography seriously. Compounded by my somewhat-recent transition from a rural upbringing in Wisconsin to an abrupt and urban adulthood in New York City, my artistic process has had to evolve considerably in the meantime. After all, in an environment where the very landscape is ever-shifting, it’s all the more challenging to capture exceptional light on exceptional subjects when neither is intentionally man-made.
Work Statement
Since moving to New York City three years ago, I’ve been increasingly drawn to symbols of human presence in the changing city landscape and the influence urbanity has on the natural — and vice versa. City sites that are in transition, in one way or the other, are but moments in the glacier-like collision of city and nature, but also reveal the sharpest edges of the ever-changing border between them. I derive my aesthetic inspiration from this contrast and my photography is dedicated to the work of interpreting it for myself and for others.
Inspiration
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