Biography
At a very young age I can remember always finding interesting things around me to study and explore. It seems I was a little anxious and bored at school. My Grade six teacher mentioned that I was far more interested in what was going on in the classroom than in the lesson itself. I was a shy boy, finding myself contemplating more than studying, or maybe I was just exploring in my own way.
Then I found a great love in music. I think it was the emotion of music that attracted me. In nearly twenty years as a professional touring and recording musician, I always carried a camera with me on my travels. Although I was fascinated by music, photography was always my other love.
Photography’s immediate presence, conveying emotion and expression, attracted me greatly.
I remember many times on tour driving through beautiful early morning mist and fog thinking wow! this would make a great photograph! Unfortunately, the nature of touring rarely allows time to stop and smell the roses.
I wanted to slow down my life at that point and as much as I loved performing, I wanted to explore a different kind of expression. Photography for me, is that expression. I believe one should always be moving forward and trying new things.
For me, it’s all about conveying emotion and photography allows me to do that visually. My approach is simply to convey how I feel about the subject matter.
It has always given me great joy to photograph “found” objects rather than studio set-ups. Although I may go to great lengths to perfect the ultimate image, it’s fascinating to me to find art in nature, then manipulate it. I guess that’s why I enjoy abstraction so much. It seems natural for me to work a subject to find the inner meaning by using only part of it. The only limitation to your approach is your imagination.
Then I found a great love in music. I think it was the emotion of music that attracted me. In nearly twenty years as a professional touring and recording musician, I always carried a camera with me on my travels. Although I was fascinated by music, photography was always my other love.
Photography’s immediate presence, conveying emotion and expression, attracted me greatly.
I remember many times on tour driving through beautiful early morning mist and fog thinking wow! this would make a great photograph! Unfortunately, the nature of touring rarely allows time to stop and smell the roses.
I wanted to slow down my life at that point and as much as I loved performing, I wanted to explore a different kind of expression. Photography for me, is that expression. I believe one should always be moving forward and trying new things.
For me, it’s all about conveying emotion and photography allows me to do that visually. My approach is simply to convey how I feel about the subject matter.
It has always given me great joy to photograph “found” objects rather than studio set-ups. Although I may go to great lengths to perfect the ultimate image, it’s fascinating to me to find art in nature, then manipulate it. I guess that’s why I enjoy abstraction so much. It seems natural for me to work a subject to find the inner meaning by using only part of it. The only limitation to your approach is your imagination.