Description

This is my Artist’s Statement We are a visual species. We think and dream in pictures, and in our attempt to clarify our perception of the world, photography provides us with the means to undertake a very specific exploration of this world, sometimes with universal implications. Rather than trying to create images to prove a point or illustrate a concept, I am interested in the function of photography to act as a witness to the world and to personalize that experience to the viewer an image that will then elicit their own involvement into that experience. As Henri Cartier-Bresson once said, “The aim of photography is not to transmit to the public a view of current events, but a particular emotion, produced by the encounter between the photographer’s inner world and the world surrounding him.” This Magic Moment” and creating a photographic image of that distinct encounter of the inner and outer worlds, that specific slice of time, is my purpose and exemplified in my art. I was born in Catskill, New York, l