Untitled JWP2 Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

I was born in 1968 in the small upstate NY town of Owego.

I always took pictures as a child with various Kodak instamatics and a Polaroid 1 Step. In college I began using video and took a photography course as an elective. That is where I learned to use a "real" camera and control the exposure as well as develop my own film and prints. My first influences in Photography were Duane Michals and Pete Turner. Later influences were John Pfalh, Joel Peter Witkin, Gerald Slota and painters such as Edvard Munch, Rene Magritte, Jackson Pollack and Jorges Roualt.