Rooted in process, shaped by failure, and refined through persistence, my work reflects a lifetime of learning photography from the ground up — from darkroom chemistry to the digital era. Transformation is complete. This practice is anchored in patience, observation, discipline, and the quiet certainty of arrival.
By nature I live between two disciplines — the precision of progressive technology and the patience of analog craft. For decades that meant tweaking chemical formulas in a darkroom, coaxing negatives and prints into existence by hand. I did not accept a digital camera until 2015, and only because it was a gift. My first instinct was the ocean. But in time I applied everything failure had taught me in the darkroom — the discipline, the eye, the process — to a tool I never asked for. No transition. No formal training. Just the same self-taught insistence on seeing clearly. That duality was never a contradiction. It was always the foundation.