I photograph big and colorful urban landscapes in New York City. I want my photos to have the perfectly straight lines of architectural blueprints, so I routinely position my camera squarely to a scene and shoot it in a grid of smaller sections using a telephoto lens.
By seamlessly piecing these segments together I end up with a full view, while avoiding the distortion a wide-angle lens would yield. This also gives me a high level of detail even at very large scales.
My photos can be viewed the same way our visual perception works: we quickly understand an overall scene and notice vivid color, but then we examine the details that catch our eye. In my pictures these details are often asymmetrical elements that are contained in the grid-like framework of the composition.
BACKGROUND:
After getting a Fine Arts degree from Penn State I worked as a photojournalist eventually shooting for the Associated Press. In NYC I've freelanced for fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg, tattoo artist Paul Booth, and rapper Jim Jones. I taught a photo class for adolescents at St. Luke's Hospital and recently had a solo exhibit at Joe's, a coffee shop in Chelsea. I currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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