I am…
…a Brooklyn-based photographer born in Canada, seasoned in Poland, and emerging in NYC, where I have been based for over six years running. As a Film Studies major, I was always enamored with the image, moving then, still now, but I didn't catch the photography bug (the only for me these days, I hope) until relatively late in life. But what's late? Worse is never to start.
Though I have become a photographer relatively late in life, visual images and telling stories have long been part of my life. My eye was forged in the university cauldron of Film Studies but enhanced during my many years as a journalist and interpreter of news. If photography is nothing more, and nothing else, but writing with light, I am more than happy with both sides of that particular coin.
My passion is street photography a la Robert Frank and Saul Leiter and Roy Decarava and Lisette Model and Louis Faurer and so many others. Obviously Henri Cartier-Bresson looms large too, as do noted color photographers I have been admiring of late like Alex Webb and Harry Gruyaert. This forms the base of my constant street forays into color and light and form and composition.
Through all is my eye and my vision and my desire to see the world differently. As seen in recent months, an atavistic craving to view everything through the same lens darkens the vision of those who want to see all as good or evil. Yet, I believe the more ways we see the world, the better it can be. The oblique angle tells us who we are. As the great Sid Grossman said, “a good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see.”