Statement

My interests as a photographer lie primarily in the realm of intersection — visual, physical, metaphorical. I’m drawn to the dynamics that occur when these elements interact in ways that suggest particular kinds of meaning, and create circumstances that point to larger truths. Such moments are fleeting, and often surprising, as if something glimpsed out of the corner of one’s eye.

I photograph, in large part, to encounter such moments, and to thereby more clearly understand the world around me, and myself in relation to it. The act of making a photograph is a kind of reaching out with an internal visual tether to examine, test, and ultimately link with these separate, but momentarily interconnected elements. Depending on the clarity and strength of the linkage, what emerges is an artifact (the photograph) which contains a measure of coherent meaning. And it’s there, in the perceptual connections one makes, that the spiritual might be found.

While the environments of highland Mexico and coastal Cape Cod might seem different in almost every respect, they share in fact two important features: an intensity of spirit and a compelling sense of place. There is in both an emphatic presence and depth, dimensions that accrue in layers only with the long passage of time. These qualities command my attention now more insistently than ever, even after 47 years of looking. It’s fair to say that whether I photograph Cape Cod Bay in Truro, a young boy on his horse at a jaripeo in El Jaguey, or Noche de Muertos in the Tzurumutaro panteón, I’m responding to the very same things, however dissimilar in form they may appear.