Artist statement
My work exists to share my appreciation of a quieter, more natural world. My lens is trained on New Jersey, my lifelong home, revealing its underrated natural beauty. I am passionate about my home state and take great pride in making photographs that challenge its reputation as little more than suburban sprawl and the highways surrounding Newark Airport.
I lean heavily on photography as a clean break from the machine of life, and a simple workflow drives my philosophy. Loathe to overthink or over-conceptualize, I allow a natural response to my surroundings. This intuition dictates the process. From the field through edits, I work under a simple mandate to produce a photograph that best highlights the splendor of the place I call home.
The Molyneux Method
Observe. Create. Make.
My photography begins with attention.
I observe a place long enough to notice what might otherwise be missed: a shift in light, a pattern in water, a weathered structure, a quiet transition from one moment to the next.
From those observations, I create: connecting place, composition, memory, light, and feeling into an image.
Then I make: I give that idea physical form through the photograph, the print, and the experience of living with it day after day.
An ephemeral observation made permanent.
At the center of the process is a simple belief:
Attention is a form of care.
Artist Biography
Photography came to me as the most unlikely of passions. From humble beginnings New Year’s Day 2012, participating in a yearlong photo-a-day project, one I was certain I would quit, to where I am today—a maker of landscapes. Photography, an art I once berated with open scorn as an ignorant youngster who thought he could draw well enough, manifested as the creative outlet I used to love to hate. Life is strange.
Displayed work
WaterWorks Exhibit at Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences. Exhibit Dates Friday, July 26 – Sunday, August 11, 2019. With a further write up in the SandPaper.
Featured articles
Depress the Shutter. Originally written for Breaker Zine in 2017, it has been published here since World Mental Health Day in 2019. It is important we share our stories to defeat the stigma associated with depression and all mental illness. Updates were made for grammar and style.