For a long time my work has centered on the landscape. The landscape for me is a place of presence--a perceptual field that anchors a sense of basic existence. I am interested in the space of the landscape, the palpability of light, and the awareness of being in relation to time--both the immediate present and the geologic past and future. I want to create an expansive and integrated vision of the natural and built environments. The "ruins in reverse," that are the vast, anonymous warehouses and condominiums of the modern economy have an openness--a sense of potential and also foreboding--that in certain ways mirrors the feelings of beauty and fear instilled by the vast spaces of the American west. My photographs present these ideas experientially, not just as documents of objective phenomena happening out in the world. I am interested in the experience of seeing, not just what is seen, and how photography functions as a translator of this experience. As with our perceptions, photography has a complex relationship with reality.

I create images based on evolving general ideas and intuitions rather than predefined projects; the groups of images emerge in an organic fashion and represent gradual shifts of my photographic ideas and concerns. I am interested in making work that is subtle, open ended, intellectually rigorous, and does not reveal itself at first glance. I take great care with my final prints so that they convey a precise and subtle sense of light, space and scale, and have a presence as objects. The intention is for the photographs to immerse the viewer in their space while also pointing to the act of perception. Many of the images are apparently clear windows onto the world, others are subtly or obviously manipulated.

All of the color images on the website are printed as pigmented inkjet prints, sized between 24" x 30" and 30" x 37.5". All of the black and white images are silver-gelatin prints sized between 20" x 24" and 24" x 30".

Gitterman Gallery, New York