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Way back where it all started. My father took this photo of me outside our dune shack. 1975.

 

“I’m always doing things I cannot do. That’s how I get to do them.”

— Picasso

 

I’ve been obsessed with photography since I was 7. I used to take pictures with a 127 film camera and loved taking it to The Patrician, a drugstore in Provincetown, MA, where I lived when I was in 1st grade. I remember to this day how excited I was to see the finished photos a week later.

I just kept practicing and looking for chances to keep going with photography. I saw a notice for photography classes at the local YMCA, so I signed up. In that class we learned how to develop film and I got my first 35mm SLR camera, a Pentax K1000. I took the photo below on the dunes of Cape Cod with that camera. I was 11 years old.

Morning light on sand dunes. North Truro, Massachusetts, 1980.

Morning light on sand dunes. North Truro, Massachusetts, 1980.

I like the Picasso quote above because it most closely captures the motivation behind everything I do: I love to experiment with light, animals, donuts, people, whatever I can get in front of my camera.

Cameras have been my constant companion through the years, and I still have the same excitement I had while waiting to get the small square photos back from the Patrician.

The photos you’ll see on this site are my visual journal of things that bubble up in my imagination from day to day.

 

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