About me

I grew up in Cedar City, Utah — east of Main Street, known as ‘Dog Town’ among the hard-working farmers, miners and working-class descendants of Mormon pioneers and the native Suh’dutsing (Cedar) Paiute band.

My first exposure to photography was when I came across my grandfather’s tripod in an abandoned camper trailer; I would pretend for hours to be a photographer or a film maker.

I am an autodidact photographer. When I was young, I took a class from the local high school’s photography teacher, but during the Late 70’s, no one was diagnosed with ADHD. I didn't have the patience to sit through a class: I wanted to take photographs! For me, being self-taught meant making countless mistakes and thousands of horrible photographs. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

When my grandfather gave me his cameras and developing equipment, I set a darkroom in my home and spent hours developing film and prints. It was as much a practice in patience as it was was process.

I did and do enjoy the analogue process, but with the advent of digital processing, my vision of photography as art have changed exponentially.

Photography has moved from beyond being an object that becomes ‘captured’ and therefore imprisoned and static. Psychologically, photography encapsulates an awareness of synesthetic perceptions that I have had all my life: it is an outlet for images, ideas, emotions and ideology; it is a search for truth and beauty within the illusion of perception.