About Me
After
discovering photography late in life via the microscopic world of a forensic
nurse, I am convinced that photography is a medium to show and celebrate the power of the human spirit. For me, photography allows me to
record, document, and express a mood, a feeling or a memory not always fully
understood at the cerebral but more at the visceral level. I find these qualities in my subjects
whether it is people, places, plants and things that surround me everyday. It is by this process that I use
my camera to capture those fleeting images that reaffirm our connection to
nature and to one another; this is visual poetry. My images become a way that I can admire aesthetically and
embrace those memories and thoughts suspended in time by a photograph.
I have been heavily influenced by great photographers and visual artists from the present and past: from Henri Cartier Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Dorthea Lange, Diane Arbus capturing the human spirit in search of truth and inner beauty to Ansel Adam’s and Georgia Okeefe’s meditative landscapes that elevate the human spirit to oneness with nature.
This is what I hope to capture in my body of work--- beauty, laughter, compassion, truth, sorrow, hope, wonder and love. In essence, these emotions that heal the soul is what I want to capture in my work.
I have been heavily influenced by great photographers and visual artists from the present and past: from Henri Cartier Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Dorthea Lange, Diane Arbus capturing the human spirit in search of truth and inner beauty to Ansel Adam’s and Georgia Okeefe’s meditative landscapes that elevate the human spirit to oneness with nature.
This is what I hope to capture in my body of work--- beauty, laughter, compassion, truth, sorrow, hope, wonder and love. In essence, these emotions that heal the soul is what I want to capture in my work.