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Artist Statement
Always, I am drawn to abandoned places and wild, reclusive Nature. Spirits left behind from the human and natural world—all are recurring themes in my photographs.
In 2003 I began working in Greece. Here, the play of light transformed landscapes into dreamscapes of myth and possibility. Structures told stories. I discovered deserted farm buildings (kalivia) and captured their graceful return back to nature. Simple goat paths seem to take me through time and I found echoes of Hellenic antiquity everywhere in the 21st-century rural landscape.
My work has evolved from photographs ablaze with Mediterranean light to darker landscapes where moon glow, dusk, and early dawn make strange, extraordinary light. There are winding roads beneath star-like streetlights shot at midnight; Vega, making it’s way across a black sky. And people. In my most recent body of work old and new meet head-on as farmers, bakers, fishermen, use traditional methods while slowly embracing the 21st century.
I have found much to photograph in Greece traveling repeatedly to the western mountain area of Epirus, making stops in Zagoria and the central farmlands of Larissa. I keep moving—driving far, hiking off the well-trod paths, camping out to catch the daybreak and the dusk.
Henri Cartier-Bresson said, “ …There are some places where the pulse beats more…” For me, for now, that place is rural Greece.
In 2003 I began working in Greece. Here, the play of light transformed landscapes into dreamscapes of myth and possibility. Structures told stories. I discovered deserted farm buildings (kalivia) and captured their graceful return back to nature. Simple goat paths seem to take me through time and I found echoes of Hellenic antiquity everywhere in the 21st-century rural landscape.
My work has evolved from photographs ablaze with Mediterranean light to darker landscapes where moon glow, dusk, and early dawn make strange, extraordinary light. There are winding roads beneath star-like streetlights shot at midnight; Vega, making it’s way across a black sky. And people. In my most recent body of work old and new meet head-on as farmers, bakers, fishermen, use traditional methods while slowly embracing the 21st century.
I have found much to photograph in Greece traveling repeatedly to the western mountain area of Epirus, making stops in Zagoria and the central farmlands of Larissa. I keep moving—driving far, hiking off the well-trod paths, camping out to catch the daybreak and the dusk.
Henri Cartier-Bresson said, “ …There are some places where the pulse beats more…” For me, for now, that place is rural Greece.