All of my black & white images are silver gelatin prints made with a Crown Graphic 4 x 5” field camera. The 16 x 20” photographs are at a limited edition of 40.
From any place in nature emanates an essential spirit or energy. My photographs stem from long back road trips, seeking places where I find myself most centered, most mindful, bigger in a way, discovering this ancient connection many of us have with the earth. Taking photographs is a ritual of sorts I have adopted in order to find a voice.
This energy is a positive one I aim to bring back to the darkroom, and hopefully later to the view of others.
The aesthetic of dichotomies seem to bring in the most interesting dialogue. The wilderness sometimes engulfs me; I am tiny and big at the same time, I let my eyes follow the tracks that will lead to an image. A trail leads to the sky, the sky reflects the earth, contradicts and completes it simultaneously. The order and the chaos are one.
Big Field near Grancy Switzerland 1996
Bamboo Shoots Huntington Gardens 1997Burney Falls, California 1998
Country Road near Redding, California 1992
Crossroads 1997Dark Woods, 1994Dark Woods 1994Death Valley Dune 1993Desert Underbrush 1993Do Not Shoot Turkeys 1995
Encounters 1997
Foggy Field near Aix-en-Provence 1994Four Trees near Avenches, Switzerland 1995.FreezeFog Day Cambridgeshire UK 1996Frozen Bush Villars-Bozon, Switzerland 1993Funnel Cloud Nevada 1994Gothard Pass Switzerland 1993‘L’ Road Cossonay, Switzerland 1993La Tine, Switzerland 1997Lake Britton, California 1998Lost Parade, Cambridgeshire 1996Palm Trees, Las Vegas 1991Mini Forest, Les Verrières, Switzerland 1993Mossy Tree Buttes, Switzerland 1993Orr Springs, California 1991Palm Scales, San Marino California 1998Patchwork Vineyards, Bex, Switzerland 1993Petaluma Vineyard, California 1992Possibilities, Gulf of Mexico 1997Riverbed, Paskenta California 1995The Road to Lugano, Switzerland 1993Ron’s Nevada Sky 1995Salinas Hills California 1995Skyline, Bonachiesse Switzerland 1994Skyline Fence California 1995Stormy Trees near Berne, Switzerland 1993
Summer Bed, Golden Gate Park San Francisco 1998The Separation, Cambridgeshire UK 1995Toft Parish, Cambridgeshire UK 1996Trees of New Almaden Mine, California 1994Upcoming Storm on Highway 35, California 1994Val Ferret, Switzerland 1994Wave Rocks, Fresno, California 1994Windy Field, Paskenta, California 1994