PORTRAITS
Although I tend to photograph intimate natural landscapes, I've encountered and been aesthetically drawn to many individuals throughout my travels. I'm compelled to photograph them not exactly because they appear odd or explicitly different from what I'm used to in daily life, but because they are lost in thought, somehow absent from the space in which I witness them and inhabiting an other, more interior or subterranean world. You might find that these portrait photographs tend to be from my travels in Ireland more so than elsewhere, perhaps because of Ireland's famously rich plethora of fascinating, eclectic characters. It is, after all, the homeland of radically innovative—and, if I may, quite quirky— writers such as W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, and Flann O'Brien, among many others. I hope you enjoy these portraits. Rather than capturing an exterior landscape, these images represent my desire to explore a more interiorized, enigmatically hidden, perhaps even unconscious form of landscape.
Read MoreSharing a Guinness with my solitude
While in Dingle Ireland, I stopped at a pub for a drink, in a back room was this, I guess musician lost in thought, took a photo before he noticed, so to catch the moment and afterwards asked him if he would allow me to keep the photo or not, he said yes, I said thanks, did not want to disturb him further, went to the pub’s patron and let a Guinness paid for my friend.
I THINK OF THEE AS I GAZE AT THE SEA
Mystic Seaport Connecticut 2013-10