Since my childhood years I have been interested in the phenomenon of the photograph. I have wondered how a moment in history could be recorded and held still forever; far off places could be conveyed with great accuracy, people and events could be depicted.

     Even before I learned any processing I was capturing images of textures and organic forms. These were ways of collecting pieces of the world around me that I found intriguing. Once learning the technical side of photographic processing, that trend flourished.

   The disconnect of black and white imagery from how we standardly perceive our world also interests me. The historical and technological artifact of photography’s strictly black and white past also leads a feeling of chronological disconnect when the subject matter is obviously contemporary.

   These works were created with the combined penchant for the hunt and an awe-inspired appreciation for the world around me. Their tendency to isolate and thereby decontextualize many of their subjects helped me to present the images as pure compositions. Through this my perspective has come to see my role more as a curator of found arrangements than a creator of artworks in their entirety.