My
photography largely seeks its creation within the realm of autobiography:
persona, relatives, creatures and sites with which I am familiar and
at freedom
to explore. Photographing in black and white at night further transports
these
sites I visit and haunt. Experimentation with "my life as journey"
introduces
extended shadows and envelopes strangers withim my vision and dream.
In turning my lens to record the subjects and situations one encounters
in life,
I seek to impose as little as possible on what passes before my eye.
By allowing
such fluid embrace of theme, vision, and the energy of movement, the
"flou" (blur)
joins time and space, capturing the "unrepresentable" or imagined
reality. A
fraction of a second, pushed by the open lens transcends to timeless
imagery.
The moment of transformation from dog
to wolf highlights the respective qualities inherent in, and ascribed
to, each creature from
the domestic, familiar, tame, unthreatening, and loyal to its opposite;
the wild, unpredictable, threatening and unknown. As evidence of this
seemly fearless approach in both theme and technique, I have entitled
one body of my work "Entre Chien et Loup". This expression
denotes the realizable and quixotic time of day when dusk turns into
night.