yugoslavia

In late spring of 1990 I traveled to Yugoslavia for two weeks to photograph the people of a country that had fascinated me for years. It seemed to be a country that provided many varied cultures and traditions with a place to grow and prosper, without the political tension and friction that usually surfaces. What I feel I experienced was something of a calm before the storm, as just a few months after I returned home the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began to disintegrate into years of conflict and war.

There are 50 photographs in this portfolio, printed on 11"x 14" Portriga Rapid paper, and matted to 16"x 20".

turkey

In the early spring of 1990 I traveled to Turkey for two weeks, and photographed people and places within the city of Istanbul, and the surrounding area. As the only city in the world that sits on two continents, I was drawn to the cultural interaction between the Eastern and the Western ways of everyday life, along with the catalyst of change that new technologies were bringing to a deeply rooted traditional community. There are 75 photographs in this portfolio, printed on 11"x 14" Portriga Rapid paper, and matted to 16"x 20".

from under a summer garden

These photographs are a selection from a larger series of 75 prints titled "From Under a Summer Garden", which I completed in the summer of 2000. They were inspired by observations in passing, as I rode my bike, or walked across campus on my way to and from my darkroom. They were all taken with a 4" x 5" pinhole camera that I loaded with black and white film. The perspectives were low, and often under a canopy of garden growth. Exposures were long, and the depth of field extensive. I printed them on 16"x20" mat finished paper, and hand-painted them in the accumulative colors of all the summer memories that are planted in my mind.