Black and white photography allows enough abstraction for me to interpret a scene without removing its veracity. It allows me to share something of a place and of myself at the same time: to create a visual artifact of an experience.

My photographic education began subliminally as a child examining the illustrations in my father’s “how to” photography books. His neglected hobby settled into my mind and lay dormant, hibernating, emerging to become part of my identity.

After years of photographing nature in color and making “pictorial” black and white landscapes, it struck me that the most interesting and unique images were about people. My focus changed to documentary photography, a comfortable blend of people and their environments. I remain enamored with basics: natural light, film, and the darkroom.

Education

Certificate in Fine Art Photography, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington, 2006.

Workshops with Mary Ellen Mark, Keith Carter, and Tim Rudman.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Lynnwood Convention Center, Tiger & Si: Environmental Portraits, Lynnwood, WA, 1/2006.

Photographic Center Northwest, Thesis Exhibition, Tiger & Si: Environmental Portraits, Seattle, 6/2006.

Google, Inc., Esprit des Lieux, Kirkland, WA, 6/2005.

Berlitz Language Center, Esprit des Lieux, Bellevue, WA, 7/2004.

Selected Group Exhibitions

Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Spectra ‘07 National Photography Triennial, New Canaan, CT, 10/2007. Curator: Peter MacGill.

Sammamish City Hall, Demographic Tapestry: Strands of our Culture, Sammamish, WA, 6/2007. Curator: Dianne Elliot.

Museum of History and Industry, Nature in the Balance, Seattle, 2007. Curator: Howard Giske.

National Parks Conservation Association Gallery, Northwest Exposure, Seattle, 1/2007.

Washington Gallery of Photography, Travel Afar, Bethesda, MD, 7/2006.

Texas Artists Museum, Tenth Annual Juried Photography Competition, Port Arthur, TX, 11/2004.

Coleville Arts Foundation Regional Gallery, Bringing in the Wood, Coleville, WA, 10/2004.

Photographic Center Northwest, Visual Proof, Ninth Annual Photographic Competition, Seattle, 7/2004. Curator: Roy Flukinger

Alder Gallery, La Petite XI, Coburg, OR, 1/2004.

French–European Artistic and Cultural Center of Seattle, Paris/The First Sight, Seattle, 8/2002.

Norton Building Lobby, Passport Series/Sense of Place, Seattle, 2/ 2002. Curator: Margery Aronson.

Photographic Center Northwest, Take My Picture/Emerging Artists, Seattle, 11/2001.