The Source
Unnamed Sixteen, 2017 — Sidelong :: (click to see more)
Been doing more thinking about why movement is important in my latest bodies of work. It's not just movement but time, rhythm and pattern. I think it distills down to this - geometry.
As a kid I was really good in math and when we got into ...
Wider Audience
Unnamed Fifteen, 2017 — Sidelong :: (click to see more)
Been thinking a lot lately about my creative work and how I'm going to get it out to a wider audience - honestly I've been thinking about that for ... well, years. My reticence about doing this is my own personal demon to battle but an ...
Small Progress
Unnamed Fourteen, 2017 — Sidelong :: (click to see more)
Made some small progress these past weeks and actually taped up the mould so it's ready for the first pour - of the second attempt. Hoping... to get to that next week. Been a busy summer - for a change.
But still working on this new series ...
Magnitude
Unnamed Thirteen, 2017 — Sidelong :: (click to see more)
Just got back from a week of vacation back country canoe camping at Bon Echo provincial park - Northeast of Belleville. There was one night I got up at 2am while everyone was asleep - there was no wind, the fire was out, it was so ...
Second Nature
Unnamed Twelve, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
So much of how I photograph has become second nature. Most of what I shoot is my family with my cell phone. They've become much more self conscious and aware that I'm making photographs so I've had to get stealthy. But even that is difficult ...
My Own Path
Unnamed Eleven, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
I'm very easily influenced by others and so it's difficult for me to find my own path. This is true for all aspects of my personality. It can be good when it fires my imagination but it can be bad when it leads to imitation.
I ...
Hurry Up And Wait
Unnamed Ten, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
Despite my drive for faster gear and work processes, it's odd - after making source images I sit on them for weeks or months before combing through and finishing them. In a way this is no different from the long slow process I used to endure ...
Irony
Unnamed Nine, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
Back years ago when I was shooting both panchromatic and infrared black and white film, it was a lengthy process to get from shooting to an image. I had the film processing down to a consistent procedure that I could largely do while sitting reading but ...
Urgency
Unnamed Eight, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
There's always an urgency for me when I'm shooting. Most of what I see in the world is fleeting and short lived - a momentary alignment where the light, the shadow, the subject, the colour, the framing - all of it are perfect. Where it ...
Available Light
Unnamed Seven, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
When I first began shooting black and white in grade 9 the camera club had no flash units - just 35mm Pentax cameras. So I got used to shooting using available light. Over the years as I bought camera equipment it was the camera and then ...
Simplify
Unnamed Six, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
For some reason I've never spent a lot of money on camera gear. I suppose it's something that began in my student days of limited money but then became a habit. Although, when it comes to anything shiny new and technical, I do tend to ...
Maui Tree
1994 | 2011
Archival Pigment Print
33" x 48"
edition of 10
Post Race
1987 | 2017
Alternate Processes
Unnamed Five, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
I was speaking with a client yesterday about alternate photographic printing processes - gum bichromate, salted paper, and cyanotype. In the early 90's I took a bunch of different workshops at Gallery 44 where they taught alternate printing processes like these. Looking back on the ...
Bathroom Darkroom
Unnamed Four, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
Fairly recently I sold a large black and white print from the Tropical series. An image of sculptural tree roots that had been scoured and cleaned by wind, water and sand. It was selected as part of a group of images that depicted nature for ...
Printing
Unnamed Three, 2017 — Side Slide :: (click to see more)
I've been thinking about my final printing step. Up to now, making prints has been more of an after thought - doesn't sound so good I know. But given that I print constantly for clients, I have a solid handle on the printing process and am ...