Photography & Experiences
In my professional life, I am an educator. In my spare time, I collect images and experiences.
I see the world in images, and capturing those with my lens allows me to immerse myself in and try to make sense of the world around me
Often, the photographs I take are simple ones: the small things I observe on my walks, the wisteria hanging from a café portico in the West Village, a construction site whose piled up pipes remind me of an art exhibit I once saw in Tallin, the face of my child gleefully jumping into a puddle along the banks of the River Cam.
But sometimes the photographs I take capture the essence of a moment and the tempo of a mood of greater import – empty streets of NYC during the Covid lockdown, tents of the homeless in San Francisco, the makeshift playground of a refugee camp in Bethlehem. Taking pictures forces me to pay attention and notice details that might otherwise pass me by in the whirlwind of life.
I am also particularly interested in the more philosophic underpinnings of photography.
Why do people photograph? Can an image get us to move? To act? What happens to someone under the gaze of the photographer? With the closing of a shutter does a subject turn into an object? What does it mean to be observed? As you think about these questions, enjoy the glimpses from my albums.
