The Creature Photograph

I create, collect and juxtapose images, objects, fragments. My first camera was a Kodak Baby Brownie Special. In High school I built a darkroom and advanced my skills with a Yashica Mat 124G. I also learned how to shoot and cut a 16 mm movie, edit and dub sound. I took my first self-portraits with a Hawkeye Instamatic and Polaroid SX-70. Later I experimented with 8 mm film and studied printmaking. I have worked in radio & print journalism and written about the history of photography and the body. I see little in the way of boundaries between life and art. It is my way of being to paint, sketch, write and tell stories, make things, produce, collect and assemble stuff.