Additional Projects
Additional Projects
Journey West Exhibit
2001 - 2011
Moving to Arizona in December 2001 to the small former copper mining town of Ajo, about 40 miles from the Mexico border, I started photographing the local landscape and infrastructure which was to become a three part series titled Journey West Exhibit. The three sections were broken down into travels between Ajo to Tucson, Tucson to Phoenix and finally Phoenix to Ajo; each city is approximately 110 miles from the other. All of this work was shot with film using a medium-format Pentax. The first section, Ajo to Tucson was first presented…
Fair Thrills!
2006 - 2008
Over the course of a few years in the mid-2000’s at a time when I was experimenting with color film, small-scale carnivals, amusement parks and state fairs became an ideal setting for photographing vivid and saturated scenes of escapism. Accentuating this surreal setting included using less than ideal color filters: if you shoot with a medium green filter over your lens, things are going to look strange. It’s not that I actually abused my camera, but there were certainly some rides I could have used better judgment in not taking out of the case and could have been more gentle when advancing the film…
The Boneyard
October 25 and 26, 2010
On October 25, 2010 I was given necessary access to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona to photograph what is commonly referred to as “the Boneyard”: a final resting place for decommissioned government and commercial aircraft from all around the world. While still shooting with film, I was allowed to record this sober testament as a part of our national defense and infrastructure that is not easily put into words…
Star of Tom
Month of December 2015
It was Thanksgiving 2015 when I realized I wasn’t going anywhere during the month of December, so it seemed as good as time as any to finally create a series of photographs of a favorite vintage holiday decoration I have owned since 1999, one which was occasionally hauled up to the roof for seasonal cheer. But this time, giving great thought to this piece of DIY homemade charm, I started to think about the indecipherable numeric codes and letters printed on foil-strips affixed to the star; could this be…
Bluest Skies
January 21 - 28, 2008
I was born in Kansas but spent my youth in Seattle: from eight months old until the age of 22 I was firmly entrenched into the state of Washington and it’s reliably overcast skies which made the sunny days all the more spectacular. The family relocated briefly to Phoenix from 1964 - 1967 but Dad was lured back by Boeing and being eight years old I didn’t have much say in the matter. Fourteen years later I left my studies at the University of Washington and headed down to Southern California in 1981.