Contact >>>Artist Statement
History books rate photographers based on their ability to capture a defining moment in time. Ansel Adams recorded Yellowstone in one “defining moment” just as Alfred Stieglitz did to New York and Dorothea Lange did to the Great Depression. This emphasis on the record keeping abilities of the photograph, the accepted reality of what the camera captures, raises the question of which is more important: the image the photographer creates, or that the presented image existed? My work addresses this paradox in which recorded reality coexists with abstracted imagery.
In Contact I use a roll of film, shoot each negative as a single intentional image, and then assemble it according to the sequence it was photographed recreating the object in terms of how it was observed. The negatives are contact printed to emphasize the sequence, the evidence of observation.