Featured on these pages are mostly work from my old production, mainly done during a few intense inspired phases of my life, spanning a little over two decades, but with years of photographic inactivity between each time the camera was picked up. There is also a little bit of recent stuff as I have now picked up the camera anew after four years of doing other things.
I have never made any real attempts at pursuing a commercial career as a photographer. I simply don't have a sharp enough dorsal fin, nor very strong work ethics. I have however a few times enjoyed collaboration with someone on a given project, such as musicians in need of sleeve design to reflect their own work, and some examples of this are included in the Assignment section of the site.
But mostly this is what most photographers would see as personal work, propelled by film, chemicals and an almost fanatical refusal to manipulate or crop the image once it is captured on film.
That's about as much of a manifest about my work as you'll get out of me. I'm strongly opposed to your typical so called fine art photography website's attempt at explaining the deeper meaning of its content through endless strings of lofty artsy nonsense. I do have opinions about my own work, but I've been more of a street photographer working with what I happen to see before me. In other words, nothing is arranged before the camera to fit an idea. So whatever may be expressed in my photography is more of an emotional reaction in me than an intellectual concept I wish to explore.
All artists attempt to communicate with the audience through his or her work. If they need to include an instruction manual, then the communication doesn't work. People often say things like "I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like". This is the highest form of art critic, as it proves communication between the artist and spectator. You don't need to know why you like something. It just appeals to you for some reason.
I usually don't bother to analyze why I choose to photograph one thing and not another. I just know what I like. If you want to know more than that, you'll have to buy me a coffee or something and discuss it.

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