Sunset Sonata no.6 Photograph

I have been making photographic fine prints since 1977, first in London, England and most recently on the East End of Long Island, New York. I began working solely in traditional black and white because as a teenager I fell in love with the black and white images in The Family of Man, and then I discovered the work of Alfred Steiglitz, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Minor White. I was fortunate to attend the next to last workshop of Adams and later on studied with Minor White’s student, Paul Caponigro. Always, what fascinated me was the magic of the darkroom and the chance there to translate three-dimensional reality into transcendent black and white images. Now I also use archival digital technology seeking a similar transformation but in subtle and finely detailed color. I have always used my camera not to illustrate or document the world before the lens, but to convey something of the quality of my particular individual experience of it.