amnh and LCD
amnh, 2005 and 2008 (images 1 through 10)
Street photography is my passion -- a wild mix of technical skill and social engineering, with every component changing and evolving second by second. The original amnh series was shot over a period of six weeks in New York's American Museum of Natural History, and spun my love of street photography into a radically different environment, a sort of off-the-street photography. The project carried me from sunlight into museum darkness, from rapid-fire to a zen-like slow motion, and forced me to rethink the whole process of stalking strangers. These images strip the components of traditional street photo down to the barest cues: silhouettes gazing out over vast, artificial veldts and jungles.
(Prints from amnh have been exhibited at Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC; wall space gallery, Seattle; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland OR; Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA; Foundry Art Center, MO; Colby-Sawyer College; and many others.)
LCD, 2008 (images 12 through 19)
To create the images for the LCD series, I photographed visitors at New York's American Museum of Natural History over a period of four months in 2008 and 2009. I based all choices about focus, white balance, color, contrast, etc. solely on the LCD screen that is captured in each image; the rest of the image was allowed to fall where it may. Other than those adjustments, the images are unaltered.
(Prints from the LCD series were exhibited at the Photographic Resource Center, Boston in 2009.)