Why is it that photographers feel they must write something about themselves on their web sites and at their exhibitions? I have been to art galleries and seen page after page written about the life and work of the artist. It seems rather pretentious and self-indulgent to write the ubiquitous "artist's statement." The artist's work should speak for itself. However, since I am just as pretentious as everyone else out there, I'll write a statement, too.

I have been making photographs since I was 19. I have been good at it for about the last 6 months. I have never been published or sold a single picture, but photography is too much fun not to do.

In the real world, I am a computer programmer (which is why my site was built with vi and runs on PHP instead of FrontPage or some other lame GUI web site builder thing). Ironically, I prefer the more traditional photographic processes. If I'm making pictures, it's not with a computer. There is something about being in the darkroom--the sliminess of the developer, the cold acidity of the stop bath, the burning of the fixer (which is really bad if you have a hangnail or something)--a tangibility that a computer cannot provide (unless maybe it's ELO's IBM in their song "Yours Truly, 2095").

Thanks for visiting. I hope you enjoy the pictures. (By the way, that ELO song is on their Time LP. I have it on vinyl. Very cool. For the lyrics I'm talking about, see the quotes page.)