Notes: the photographs shown here are made with antique, pinhole, or plastic toy cameras and medium-format film. Working with old mechanical cameras and traditional film (often expired), I play with the contingencies of light, shadow, and multiple exposures to document dream worlds that are somehow recognizable but not real. These photographs then enter the modern world through digital fine-tuning and printing.

All photographs, unless otherwise noted, are available as original, signed prints in limited runs of 25.

“Flamingos”

Camera: Mamiya C330 twin-lens

“The New Year”

Camera: Pinhole Zeroimage 69

“Passage”

Camera: Holga, multiple exposures

The children are there, and they are not; they escape my camera even as I reach to grab them. Memory is no better, really; and yet, though memory conjures clear pictures, it is the blurred moments of the past that constitute who we are. They are not lost.

“Bench Disappearing”

Camera: Rolleiflex 3.5f, multiple in-camera exposures

“Street Story”

Camera: Pinhole Zero 69, multiple exposures

“Along the River”

Camera: Zeroimage 69 pinhole

The image pleases me greatly–it feels like a familiar dream, dark and only almost accessible. There are two boats, two boys, on a river or stream or marsh going somewhere. Where are they? going?

“Anamnesis”

Camera: Zeroimage 69 pinhole

“Slices of Architecture in Time”

Camera: 1925 Kodak  Pocket bellows camera, multiple exposures.

“American Bison”

Camera: Mamiya C330.
Photo site: South Dakota

This shot was the last of a roll of expired film, and the raw edge of the emulsion enhances the sense of nostalgia, of seeing something in its last moment…

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