I'm a Boston-based large-format film photographer. While my earliest photographs were all digital, I made the transition to film around 2010—just as everyone presumed film's imminent demise. The digital imaging technology of the time was—while perfectly suited to professional uses—ill-suited to high-end artistic purposes. Despite digital sensor technology improving markedly over the intervening years, I nevertheless find film vastly superior for making gallery prints. I consider my photography to be a craft, not an exercise in business. Because of that, I gladly abandon the 80/20 rule. Expending extra energy, dollars, and time affords me an additional leap in quality and creative control that only large-format film affords.
My work spans two genres. Principally, I have a deep passion for architectural photography of urban and industrial settings. Railroad bridges captivate me. These challenging subjects provide unique juxtapositions of engineered patterns against the fractal forms of nature. My work thus frequently tiptoes along the amorphous divide between architectural and landscape photography.
I find the stark contrast between the engineered and the natural simultaneously compelling and evocative of a perturbing social disconnection. The digital age is decidedly unhinged from the corroding triumphs of our grandparents and great grandparents. Our forebears poured their souls and lifeblood into the design and erection of massive works. That these structures ushered the unrelenting progression of modernity into postmodernity is overlooked. These graveyards of production past are mere footnotes scattered across hamlets largely forgotten by their erstwhile residents. Ambitious children dashed to the metropolises in their avid quests for wealth and success—leaving their home towns to atrophy in concert with the relatives they forsook. As the tangible world of manufacturing—and the broader means of production—recedes from our consciousness, I hope that my endeavors can do some small service to honor the great achievements that birthed postmodernity.
This is a labor of love that I do for myself. Indeed, until my wife conveyed her vision for sharing my lens on the world beyond the walls of our home, few had ever gazed upon my work. I hope these photographs and writings will bring as much joy to you as their creation has for me.
At present, my work is not available for sale. That said, if you find that you love a particular photograph, please feel free to contact me. Time permitting, I might be willing to send my film out to be drum scanned, and then have a print prepared for you.