Portland, Oregon
Outdoor Nude #4, 2007
Hand coated platinum palladium print
$395 framed
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I have been taking photographs my whole adult life. I picked up a camera in High School and was immediately drawn to the process and possibilities of photography. By the end of my senior year I was photographing weddings for one of the studios in Tucson, Arizona, where I grew up. Later, while completing my degree at Brooks Institute of Photography, I learned in detail the technical aspects and craft of fine photography. I spent the next 20 years working as a commercial portrait photographer. All along I continued my “personal work”—photographs I made for myself rather than for a client commission.
In 1997 I began printing these personal photographs in Platinum/Palladium. This process requires hand coating the paper with a platinum/palladium emulsion that I mix from organic compounds and precious metals, and using a UV light source to make a contact print of the large format negative. The hand-made nature of this is what drew me to this process, and I find it satisfies my desire to be fully immersed in the work, both physically and emotionally. Finally, I had found a combination of art and craft that communicated clearly what I wanted to say with my work. For me, the fine platinum/palladium process allows me to express a genuine photographic image through a warm, tactile medium.
Artist Biography
For the last 11 years I have been spending more and more time on my personal work and refining my printing technique. My photographs are in private collections worldwide and in the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. These days I spend my time doing my personal work and making fine art platinum prints for sale. I currently live in Portland, Oregon with my wife and two children.
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