Statement
My real main subject is black the deep, delicious, rich blacks of a silver gelatin print and I look for that in a wide array of places and things to point my camera at land-, sea- and cityscapes, clouds, fire escapes, portraits, close-ups, animals, birds, water, microscopic views of vegetation, weaves of fabrics, skins, feathers, and elsewhere.
My main event is the sensed, non-informational, non-representational aspect of a picture. Its what happens before recognition of the subject of the photograph takes place. That recognition, those world references of a photograph are in the viewers mind not in the photograph. The photograph itself is nothing more than a flat array of blacks, with their cousins, the whites and shades of gray laid out on the rectangular field called the picture.
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